New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-14

NAV not be 80 graceful, but then, hope you dou't
20 up Mount Washington 10 display your own
% ipts OF atn action.
Mount Franklin came next, aOd we found HIM
rougber eper, and more laborious than his Pleas-
ant predecessor. The path goes directly up his
side to the very summit: path, did I sayi-ra her
ruired stsi case, with steps varying from one 70
three feet in hight, agreeaby diversified by smooth
planes of santipg rock. 1t seemed mpo' sible that
the Lorses should climb these l,t,er without slip
pi, g, yet they all did So to an animal. the tip,
we bad reached hight of AGO feet, without n
eouDterng cloud, while, to our j'y, the hood OF
Mount Wssbir gton was visibly thinner, and showed
higher up on his brows.
From Franklin TO Monroe the ridge is but a
sharp comb, barely wice enough for the bridle-
path, and falling sheer down to the wdernesses OF
forest which collect the waters OF the Saco and the
Ammonoosuc This comb, in my opinion, con
mands finer view than that from Mount Wash
ington. Looking either to the right or left, the
picture is partly framed by the vast concave sweep
of the mountaia sides; below you, the solitude u
the pimeyal forest; beyond, other mountains,
broader valleys, the gray CLEAN OF lakes and tue
distant country, fattened into faint blue waves oy
the elevation from which you behold ~ All tne
noted tuumits of the White Mountain region are
here visible. and Kearsarge, Chocorua, and the
Frsncopia Group display them'elves with noe Ell
feet. Your satisfaction is not diminished by the
presence of the rocky, cloudy mass, which still
towers high ever you: you only fear that its sum-
NIT will not give you grander panoramas than those
uprollipg below Ou-which is the case.
What pleasure lives In blight tbe shepherd saug),
In hight and cold, the splend Il of the hisT
4 great 0eal, cert,InIy. But Imagine such peas
uIe springs not merely from the sense OF beauty,
because all details, wherein, mostly, Beauty lies,
are swallowed up in the immensely OF the airy PIC
ture: there is also a lurking, fatterlng sense OF
power which we feel, although it may not c"n
sciously float on the surface of our emotions We
are elevated above the earth: other men and their
concerns are below u.s. their statellest possessions
are insignificant patches which we look down up
on without respect or envy. Our own getty strug-
giles and ambitions fade away also in the far per
spective. We stand on the pinnacle of the earth,
wher. of we are lords and above there Is nothing
but God
For this reason, hight is not proper place Tor
home. Great elevations and far prospects excite
the intellect rather than move the heart. No man
of loving nature would build his house upon
mouDtaR peak, "LOve is of the valley, ana his
chosen home is shut in and sheltered by b lis and
woods nestled in warm hollow of the earth' &C.
cessible, familiar, and yet secluded. One would
rather see bis neighbours trees and fields near him.
than look from his window upon hundred miles of
blue earth. Il have climbed to this summit with
much toll" said Herwegb, in one of his poems,
" and now the dust of those streets where lived
is dearer to me than this pure, cold air. can al
most grasp Heaven with my hands, and my heart
desires to be down on the earth again." noun
tain-top may be fine place for lovers, 10 the
sprDg.tme of their betrothal, tnt when their day
of exaltatOn is over, and the c0RmOn loves and
common cares of the world approach they will
come down and settle contentedly at the base.
Mount Monroe is sharp, rocky mass, rising
abruptly from the spinal ridge Its summit has an
elevation of $500 feet. This, however, we do not
scale but climb around it by dangerous.looki0g
path, and fDd ourselves on the ridge again, which
here brOadets out and slopes upward to Mount
Washington. On the left in hollow, about q
hundred feet below ne, is the Lake OF the Clouds,
q little pool of bue-black water, out of which
trickles the Ammonoosuc highest-bor of New-En-
gland rivers, but (ke the scions of certain fames)
not much of a stream after all The Saco, of three
or four thousand feet lower origin, achieves much
more conspicuous destiny.
BY this time, every yestige of cloud had disap
pcared, and the chieftain summit rose before us
bare, bleak and cold, steep, slightly conical mass
of greenish. gray rocks destitute of single shrub
Here and there grew tuit of brown, hardy grass,
or bunch Of dwarf, delicate white flowers, with
sweet Odor of May about them. The strong wind
blew cold and keen from Canada, and there was
no longer any shelter-no higher peak In that di-
rectOD, nearer than the Rocky Mountains. The
path, or rather stairway, was go rough and labo-
rious, that dismOuDted for awhile, TO the great
Joy of my horse, and climbed until the thin air
failed to supply my lungs 1t wasa steady upward
pull of half all hour before we found the sharp Great
hatten under us, and reached the fold of piled
stones where the horses are left. The rest OF the
company (twentj eight in ally had already arrived,
and some of the gentlemen were engaged in mixing
the waters Of an icy spring among the rocks with
the contents of pOcket.faSks. In such place, and
under such circumstances, all-eyen the ladies'
paItook of the mixture without hesitation. "The
Maine Law, suppose is imperative up here" l
said to the guide. "Ob," ne replied, emo law
comes this high: we are out of the State of New
Hampsbire." If q man should commit a crime in
q balloon, where should he be tried?