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MADE DURING AN EXCURSION TO THE

HIGHLANDS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE

AND

LAKE WINNIPISEOGE E.

BY A GENTLEMAN OF BOSTON.

Nathon Hall, 1784 - 15 6 3

Come, give thy soul a loose, and taste
The pleasures of vicissitude.

Dryden.

ANDOVER;

PRINTED BY FLAGG, GOULD, AND NEWMAN.

for sale by them, and by

HILLIARD, GRAY, & CO.

BOSTON.

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To MRS. H. W. B.

THESE notes having been exposed to the curiosity of an Editor of a distant Newspaper, extracts, I know not to what extent, were printed without the writer's knowledge.

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The remarks which remained on the loose, and nearly worn out cards, are here transcribed for your amuseIn one instance they have excited the curiosity of some of your friends to make an excursion to the region of lakes and mountains; but I understand they returned exceedingly disappointed. The Spartan soup that gave vigour to the Lacedemonians, was very distasteful to the luxurious Asiatics; so your fair friends not being prepared by a proper temperament, to feel the invigorating freshness of mountain air, returned to their sea coal fire, exhausted by the fatigue of the journey. Happily, however, for them, their nervous and dyspeptical complaints were suspended from the hour they came in sight of Lake Winnipiseogee to the seventeenth day after they reached home; thus giving them a taste of the pleasures of vicissitude.

"Sometimes 'tis grateful for the rich to try

A short vicissitude, and fit of poverty:

A savory dish, a homely treat,

Where all is plain, where all is neat,
Without the stately spacious room,
The Persian carpet, or the Tyrian loom,
Clear up the cloudy foreheads of the great."

Dryden.

EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.

THE Jews must have been a happy people during the forty years in which they were journeying through the desert; for they were not encumbered with the care of houses and farms; and though they were a money-getting and a money-saving race from the time of their first migration from Mesopotania; through their long captivity in Babylon, and ever since their dispersion, they had no temptation to accumulate what would but increase their burdens without gratifying their desires: The land of promise was before them; to this all their movements were directed, and here all their hopes were concentrated. Somewhat of the like feeling animates the man, who, determining to visit a certain quarter of the earth, on quitting the Egyptian hubbub of the city, leaves all his cares in the Red sea, or the River, and committing himself to the Hobab of the stage coach, proceeds, almost unconscious of the time, to the place of his destination.

It requires no strong effort of the imagination to picture scenes of beauty and magnificence; with the conception of something enchantingly picturesque or sublimely terrific in the unknown regions we are about to visit; the impressions we have received from the written or ver

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