The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-30
lANE WIsNIPiSEOGEE.

LAKE WINNIPIsEoGEE, N. H., July &C. 1SGs
The tourist who fails on his way 10 the White
Mountains 10 visit Lake Wnnipiseogee loses much
that would greatly enhance the attractlveness OF his
journey. The beautiful Water in High Place"
or ''The Smile of the Great SPIRIT" as the appre-
ciative Indians were wont 10 dignity il, is noun
tain lake from one to seven miles wide and twenty
five miles long without the usual rugged features Of
mountain scenery that are generally TO be found
bordering inland waters in mountainous regions.
There are certainly mountains to the right of you,
mountains to the LETT OF you, i'll fact mountains all
about you; but they do not come down to the lake
in their abrupt rocky FORMS They sink, AZ it were
into rolling hills, crowned with soft green verdure
and short ihickly growing trees some distance from
the shores, and then gradually slope to the waters
edge, all rcdolent with flowers and sweet scented
plants. Just imagine the surrounding region the
abode OF solemn Silence herself the regning quiet
disturbed but by the low, shulling sound OF the
breeze breathing through the foliage OF the trees;
the Hudson river widened two or three miles in its
widest past, Its waters turned pure crystal here
and there green islands, with now and then the little
steamer Lady Of the Lake, like some lone swan in
search Of lost companion, coming from before one
island 10 disappear behind another, only to sale you
10y its sudden darling iroai round thlrd, aud you
have Wnnipiseogee leeng oil awe and admiration
impossible W describe takes possession of one "a nc
sails aoag the "DGautlful Nater,r and how the
with this feeling TO give the lake the title he did
visitor Is by no means lost TO understand. AZ Is said
that thunderstorm In this region Is one OF the
sublimest sights that man couil well WISH To be-
hold, but IL lhave been unlorti,ate enough to
rive here while the green headands are brilliant
with sunshine" and ted mil Is not ''mullied with
solemn cloud" / must forcgo description OF the
suDliiny.
Winnip.seogee has been called the "antechamber
to the Wnlte hOuntains," from which, through the
valley OF tie Saco. the lofty heights or the favored
New Hampshire region can be seen like towers prop
dino Id
miles IRON Marlborough on the lake. long before you
get 10 the White hills, there Is mountain 100 lcet
III height which is called Copple crown, and from its
summit the lake rs visible for nearly its wnoe length,
~ well ~ the OsSipec AMI sandwich ranges and
Mount Washington and on clear day the ocean IT.
self.
Marlborough and Centre Iiarbor-tle one ten miles
up the Jake and tn other SIM furer-are the princi
pad resorts of VISITORS although scattered throughout
the villages in the vicinity there are many private
boarding houses where entire families from Boston
spend the summer months. In Marlborough tie prin-
cipdi resort there IL u HE hotel called the Pavilion.
which accommodates over q hundred guests anu Is
nov full. 1t Is situated the DO ders of the lake and
surrounded by very prety lad out grounds. At Alton
Bay ten miles below Wolioorough. where the trains
connect WIN The boat, Is tile " Innpiseogee House.
winch Is also very well patronized. The majority Of
Tue Visltors NJ the lake THIS season are BJstonans
although New Workers at one time were wont 10
predoninate In numbers. The following are among
the visitors here at present from New York city aud
BrOokiyn:-J. r. Warehouse and son, Mr. and Mrs.
Julus OchInc, l.. H. Matthews, Jr. :. s. Wliteholse
W. Whitehouse tBrookynD. ID. Ross Mrs. Harvard
Miss Harvard, Mrs. Whittier a. Brown d. Brauder
Matthews II. Won Guvera II. 1leall and wife Mrs.
L -. Turner W. liarlie and sister. Louis Josephson
Edward A. BAL ana DIR. George Clymer ana son,
Washington, u. Z. lhere are ABOUT the same num-
her of vistors'herc this as there were last season.
For the information OF the INITIATED NAV close
10y saying that the drives exec lent that there
L. no such thing as "lash' among the visitors,
aud That all who do come come not TO make dress
shOwCuaes OF themselves. but simply 10 live uuietly
san ahou, IN pieuy saiiboats whcnevcr they feel
Inclined N whatsoever attire they think the most
convenient even though u may no, be the most
fashionable; bathc when they choose and IN what.
ever part Of the lake they find safe and when it
SUITS tCil LIKE gentleman % New OK nc laint.
ance,' 40 fishing ana catch ~ many iish as are
silly enough not To- know good healthy bait from
disguised fish hook and he IL sad tina. anglers
may he happy, there are many such ignorant iish
hereabouts