New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-05-22
Letters from The Old Man of the Mountain.
NUMBER FIVE.

NUMBER FIVE.
FRIESp TRIBUNE | should ike you, and the
people who read my letters in your paper could
only see how it looks up here about me-the lay OF
the land and the look of the mountains. m afraid
you won't be able without. to see much in some
things l say. would write it all down to you
SO s you could see it, right before YOU jast as ii is
writ down here. on the leaves OF Creation, but m
rot handy with pen. l never went 10 school
day in my life OF course, and ii had. and was as
bright as they tell me you are yourself, | never
could write il down. Ii ca nj be put down on
paper ss i, is writ here, and ! ca Mt seo 1t all my
self ca n, look bu, way. and that is always
straight ahead. ! We & roundish eye, to be sure
and it sees right hand and left and up and down
can see all round, from old Moosehiock on the
right. 10 Great Hays,ack on the left, and the
sky above me, and The world below. And | can
see il all al once. And il is well can. ca Mt
turn my head round Ike Sea;hercock, ms your
people can land some of you your coats as well as
your heads-and sometimes these get turned.l
always have looked way-about Soueast. ]
have wanted sometimes TO look round, If could,
once-just 10 see what up behind me here
Canada way Bat give it up. and they tell me,
now, would nj see any thing ii did. They say
all behind me, and for many hundred feet above my
head, rise the sloping hips OF the great Elephant
Mountain, whose head is toward Moosehilock. and
his stupendous rump turned up toward the Notch
The first mountain left OF the Notch they say ia the
very image of On overgrown elephant trampoosing
among the hill tops oil 10 the Southwest And
half way down The slope OF his Left hip, if looked
round North. il would be right into the mountain.
and should see nothing hear earthquakes jar.
ring there sometimes.
OFF South. asst can see SO tar-,he valley,
il begins below the Notch, to widen out and
stretch off down the Pemigwassett and the Merri-
mack away 10 the country that sinks to the Sea-
can see the silver. threaded rivers rs they To-
gether and pour into each other al The way The
Middle Branch here, OF, of the Pond and the Eas.
Branch from among the Haystecks, and the
Moosehillock Branch from the West All of them
mountain. es ice and all the
way white. see where they come together and
when the stream begins to look riverish and have
little margins of intervae By its sides. / can see
where Mad River rightly named) hurries into 1t
from the blue Thornton Hills and the Sandwich
Mountains and the lille Beebes River that run,
l told you, friend Tribune, through oil Colonel
Holiness Farm and, farther down Bakers River,
creeping in between the Rumney Mountains down
from Wentworth, where Doctor WRiPPLE used TO
live I'll tell you about Doctor WhipPle, friend
Tribune. in one of these letters Il creeps sixteen
miles without rapid and almost without ripple,
along the way of The Railroad they talk o. up from
Boston 10 Montreal Just before YOU get TO II, can
see the white OF LiverInores Falls Judge
LlyEENogE, l told you about Beautiful Falls
friend Tribune, and worth journey to see, and
RICH, on your way to the Notch here. Just below
where Bakers River comes in, is The Bridge Pont
Fayeite over the Pemigewassett L. was named
after Lafayette, q Frenchnazn. who came over here
a-vistng, twenty years ago. He had been over,
believe, once before thai. forget on what bus;
ness. Something, understood. that made The
Country invite him 10 come again. He was snarr-
active business man, and they named ;his Bridge
after him. Why they pat the Poat in, do not
know The Bridge is in the LOWE OF Plymouth
No, where the Forefaihers landed bat where
some of their pos,sriEy laEGed. charming look
ing spot The Pemigewassett winds aboQ, in The
VSAey IneEe' IKE sNLI55AA-e rSAH I'LL SIC
Nonh Hill, peering above il 4 liitie below comes
in Squam River, from the beautiful Eolderness
Lakes, the mos, beautiful lakes or the whole earth
venture to say only guess al il but e; travel
ess see. and then ask them squan Lakes-Great
squan and Lille squan. On, they look beautiful
10 ne And on farther down Genes in The W iani-
pissockee River-runbting along II from New
Esnpshire's Lake the peerless Winnipissockee-
the water OF the rive- as ws-c as dishwater. they
tell me. |, meets the cold Penisewssse:., rsving
mad from the MOUNTAINS They marry and both
lose heir names. instead OF one. and become the
Mer-inack. Il is in the .own OF Franklin. that
a.ed 10 be SALISBURY, where 'Zekiel AID Daniel
Webster were born. AID Ichabod Bartlett and
where Parker Noyes and Richard Fletcher was
Lawyers. and Hale Per.saElI who could wri.e as
poetic SIS Shakespeare A famous lowe, hat
Town OF SALISBURY, friend Tribune The Merri-
mack iourpiss on below il 20 longer mountain
stream, bu. slow and Majestic with wide meadows
On is margin. on s,zSieh, mo old Massachusetts,
mixing the shortest cor 10 The Sea But !, scarcely
gets over the line OF the Bay srare, when i, sheers
Ess,. and runs along as nes- SIS j, get TO Neg
Ham pshire soil, without turning back again al the
way Ill il loses i,sef in the Sea II is rear town