New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-01
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CRAwroRp's, White Mountains
July 10. 1850

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{. qbsre are two routes OF travel from Boston to
xhe white Mountsins-- eastern, by way Of Lake
winnitisogee and the saco Valley, and the west.
swn. up the Connecticut River to Littleton and
,hcpce up the valley of the Ammonoosuc. The |
former, which we chose, 10 again subdiyided into |
two brsnSbes-one, via Manchester and Coacord
% wiers,s ION Lake winnipiseogee, and thence BY
Center Ha9bof to Conway, and the other, via Law
renee, Dover, spd the Cocheco Railroad 20 Alton
BAY, at the l6SSer extremity of the lake. We pre-
serred the stterpf these branches as affording us
the greater quantity Of lake travel: those who pre-
Ger haste 10 scenery take the former.
noticed one change for the better on the Bos-
ton and Maine roadItbst Of the introduction of
comfortable synckiDg-car think shcald appre-
ciate this il were not consumer Of the delecta-
Ne weed: but as / kaow from experience bow
the dreary time we spend in Tailroad-carsis be-
guied by that
I" Kind Ielnph 10 BAochis horn
By Morpheus daughter, sine that sesDs
GiAed epcn Der natal mora .
By him with Gre. BY her with dreams"
I think the Company has done comsnendable
thing. Anything that contributes to the comfort
of the public (ard ths'Pabhc eiu smoke, oh ye Re.
formers y deserves to be praised, audi therefore
praise it. There is one thing mere nccded-a Spit
ting, or rather, Chewing Car. fancy most ladies,
delicate as their nerves may be, would rather SIT in
!. smoky atmosphere than have their dresses dab
bled in the liquid filth which the Chewer is at lib
erty to disgoge everywhere. InBoston you are
fined two'do{Rrs for smoking in the streets (or
would be, If the law were enforced), but you may
'spit to ye1r- bearte content. Tho genuine smoker
does not pit: he efers only the rarest and most
fragrant Incense to bis god: and why his coarser
brother Jhould be tolerated and he prescribed is
what cannot understand. But see my friend
Greeley shake hig head over this paragraph, and
therefore drop my DEPRESSION,
A smart shower on Monday night had laid the
dust the air was ike fluid diamond, and the for
ests sparkled and cleaned as if newly vanished.
We flew past Lawrence, noticed the melancholy
site Of the Pernberton Mills, admired the eerulean
blue of the Merrimack at Haverhill, found the
further scenery tame. and ifourse of time reached
= Dover, where we were trail ERRED to the Cocheco
: Road. Our company consil led almost entirely of
Through fares" bound for the White Mountains.
The Cocheco Road passes through wild, sterile,
and altogether uninviting region, but it is only
twenty eight miles long, and in little over an hour
we embarked on the steamer Dover, at the lower
extremity of Lake Winnipiseogee. Alton Bay is
hong, narrow inlet between wooded hills. The
dark blue waves danced under strong northern
breeze, but our stauDch little steamer swiftly
parted them and brought us into the open water,
whence we saw, far to the north, the blue outpOsts
of the White Hills. The shores of the lake are
rough and wild but rendered very picturesque by
the multitude of cOyes, inlets, and islands. Win
0piseOgee is an almost exact reproduction of some
of the Scandinavian Lakes-the Tinds0, in Telle
mark, or the Malar, in Sweden, for instance. Its
atmosphere is quite as northern, Notwithstanding
it lies fifteen degrees further south. On other days
it may present warmer tints and softer outlines,
but with such a KEEN braciDg wind, under July
sun, my experiences three Summers ago came Wv
idly to my mind, and almost fancied myself again
in Norway.
We did not see the whole of the lake, owingtto a
slight Misunderstanding of mine, which, after all,
tn ned out for the best This route again, had
discovered, is subdivided there being rival stage
lines from Wolfboroush and Center Harb0r to
Conway. Surprising Marlborough to be at the
northeastern corner Of the lake, instead of the
south it really u.s. and learning that the
stages thence reached Conway in advance of those
from Center Harbor, / left the boat at the former
place, and therefore missed seeing as / had in-
tended, the upper portion of the lake. But, on
The other hand, gained the peasantest stage
route and the best approach to the mountains so
that on the whole, the balance was rather in our
favor.
At marlborough, we had time for dinner at the |
Pavilion Hotel, new house built upon knoll |
which. commands lovely view Of the Lower Win |
nipiseogee. The village, named after Gen. Wolfe,
of Quebec memory is small but neat and agree |
able place. The new stage with an oblging Mr.. |
Allen driver was at the door before we had |
done admiriDg it, and we started at half-past one
for North Conway, thirty.eght miles distant. l
took outside seat at the start, and thereby made
the acquaintance Of the editor of the only paper in
Carroll Co., who kindly invited me to become his
znents. Unfortunately, my Old habit of writing for
the readers of THE TRIBUNE prevented me from
accepting his offer.
The country rises gradually over succession of |
broad hills, which sometimes afford fine views es-
pecially over Smiths Pond, which we passed dur
ing the first few miles Of our journey but there is
no choice cultivation, no pastoral beauty of land
1eape to attract the eye. Wheat which, ten days
ago, in Pennsylvania, was mostly harvested, is
still green here; corn looks stunted and weak, and
even potatoes, from which we would expect some
thing, exhibit scarcely an average growth. The
'vaoe Of land / learned il from S15 TO 800 per