The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-26
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WHTE MOUNTAINS, July IL, ls49.
Departur. from the Waite ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Adventure of Company of 7ioenty- Trout and
Strawberries Fires in the Woods- Closing
Descriptive Doggereis
We leave these Northern Apprentices to-day.
Strawberries and trout for breakfast. The morn
ing is close and sultry-the Mount Washington
chain, the base of which sweeps down to the road,
looms up in the smoky and misty air, as if IT were
5000 feet high and forty miles distant This
house is a spacious establishment, and has large
company Of visters. As we came up in our wa
gon met COMPANY OF twenty OF the guests,
ladies and gents, on horseback, destined for a
cold dinner among the granite rocks OF the bald
pate OF Mount Washington. Thermometer at 20.
They will have but little use for their coaks and
wrappers to-day. Nor will they see the Atlantic
ocean, nor Lake Wlnaipissiogee, nor the valley OF
the Connecticut, nor the Green Mountains OF Yer
mont, as they sometimes may be seen in sweep
of the eye from the summit. The smoke OF the
fires in the woods, and the mist OF the upper at
mosphere will curtail their perspective TO the pile
OF mountains around them.
Negectlng to add our poetical contribution to
the album Of either of the hotels, we ask leave
here 10 subloin 1T
OUR DINNER ON MOUNT WASHINGTON.
While others sing the glowing charms
OF ladies fair and gay.
Our dinner on Mount Washington
Shall be my rouudelay
All on a broilipg summers day,
Stil let the truth be told.
We climbed the rocks six thousand feet,
10 .at Gal vinn'I cod
We might have had IL nice and warm
By lingering in the vale
But that would be too sensible
For this romantic tale.
Three ladies from Connecticut,
All tall and lair TO
Two guides aud i've knight-errants bold
Did form our cOmpahe.
And all in line, geese do march
Down To the waters side,
Upon our bcb-tailcd ponies We
Did up the mountain side
Up through the woods. for three long miles,
For three long miles or more,
And the corduroy bridges, long and steep,
Did try our horses sore
But then. n DER tn. rugged rocks
They clamber.d up aud down.
Twas quite another ride than that
From Harlem into town
And our Canadian nag did fall
Twice. as nj smitten bind,
Yet damaged not the rider. nor
Tho dinner strapped behind
We loosed cur ste, DIS among the rocks,
Near 20 the mountaiD's peak.
And. stumbling 10 the top on foot
Straigbtwsy did Oscar speak:
"Come ladies. pos, and gsDtiemen-
Come make yourselves right handy,
And pass around the bread and meat
While pour out the brandy"
We ate and drank right heartily,
while the hurr-s stood just so,
Gazing b. ond the naked rocks
On the green ieds belo~;
And sometimes they did look aloft,
where - did lit aud dine,
As H. while they Vanishing,
They thought IL very uDe.
But they bore us safely down again,
From a trip, absurd a. bold,
OF climbing mountains half tho day.
To eat dinner cold.
Ised M and biisered. burnt and bruised,
IL would have brru a. well
To have slept away hall the day,
To dine At the hotel.
And vet 10 honest Tom Crawford. Of the Motel
House. in behalf of the company, we hereby ex
tend our thanks for his fahtul guides, and patien
horses, and kindly hospitallties. The DocroR.