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Title: A family flight around home
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Susan, 1833-1910, joint author
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rsity, arc the Green Mountains, the vnisvionts for which the State is named. It was a lovely June day, and the Homers employed it in visit-,nc. some hospitable friends, who were proud to do the honors oftheir beautiful town by driving them to the different points of interest. The sunset across the lake, with the dark outlines sharp againstthe -lowino- Hght, was wonderful. As they sat enjoying it, in theo-^rdrn of one of their friends, the travelled Homers willingly acknowl-edged it to be fully as beautiful as similar scenes among the lakesof^Swit.erlan<l, with the addition of a certain charm of wildnes..which to Americans. American scenery alone possesses. .. The onlv thing is, said Bessie, that, after all. these mountainsseem low. T should like it better if they did not call them mountains. ^ , i r ..Mount Marcy, said the host, is about five thousaud f™,M,„d,e,l feet above the level of the sea. Tl,e Indi:,,, name, 1 a-ha-„as means he splits the sky. He added, You must not be
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A TELEGRAM. 115 too critical. Marcy is the highest to be had east of the Missis-sippi, except the White Mountains, and the Black Mountains ofNorth Carolina. ^ For my part, said Miss Lejeune, I like it all much betterthan if the hills were higher. The Alps are all very well, butthey weary me with their cold heights. I am always wishing toget away from them. Here, where we look across the broad ex-panse of water, these hills compose themselves in exactly theright way to suit the exigencies of the landscape. Miss Lejeune is celebrated, said Mr. Horner, in cx))lanationto the host, for always liking best the best that is to be had,as you have expressed it. , The Adirondack chain proper is the backbone of the five rangesof the wilderness, dividing the waters that flow northerly into theSt. Lawrence, from those that run south into the Hudson. Thesefive separate chains constitute a great mountain belt full of themost varied scenery, much resorted to now in summer by pleasuretravellers. The wh

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