used to approach the eastern frontier settlements of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Beyond are the Ktardin hills, near the extremity of Maine. North, the country is more wild and uncultivated; and Umbagog lake is seen, from which flows the Androscoggin.

West, the nearer view is over a mountainous region, covered with a thick forest, through which an occasional opening is perceived, formed by the farms (or clearings) of the hardy inhabitants. Beyond, the hills are seen to rise from the opposite shore of Connecticut river, the surface of which is everywhere hidden from view, and the summits, rising higher and higher, terminate in the ridges of the Green mountains in Ver

dicate that the summit of the mountain has fallen down and disappeared.

The general opinion seems to be that the lofty peak above us is the highest elevation in North America, except Mexico, and some of the Rocky mountains. The inhospitable nature of the climate is such as to forbid all hopes of future improvement; so that the feeling of sublimity, produced by the lonely and desolate character of this desert region, is increased by the reflection that it is destined to be a wilderness for ever.

The only places susceptible of cultivation in the heart of the mountains are the little meadows inhabited by single families, and that at the Notch house; and there the interval of warm weather is so short in the year that few vegeta

Southwesterly is seen the Grand Mo-bles can arrive at maturity, with all the

The Indians knew the White mountains by the name of Agiocochook, and regarded them as inaccessible, or at least represented them as such to white

The Lake of the Clouds is a little pond, near the summit of Mount Monroe, of beautiful clear water; it supplies the head stream of the Ammonoosuc river. This little current immediately begins its descent, and dashes in a headlong course of several thousand feet, into the valley near the encampment.

rapidity of growth which distinguishes. such cold regions. Indeed, the shortness and uncertainty of crops, with the expense of keeping stock, &c., would scarcely allow the farmer a support, without the advantages afforded by the thoroughfare, which is particularly great during the winter season. Population, therefore, may extend to the borders of these regions, and increase, as it does, on every side; but it can not pass the limit, because it can not contend with their coldness and sterility.

Various kinds of wild birds and game are to be found in the woods, besides bears, wild-cats, and deer. The moose and the buffalo were formerly abundant among the mountains; and it is scarcely forty years since they were killed in great numbers, merely for their hides and tallow, as the latter still are in the regions beyond the Mississippi. Deer are common in the woods, and frequently are killed by the hunters. Black bears are occasionally seen in the more unfrequented places, but they will always endeavor to avoid a man. A large species of reindeer, known here by the name of the Cariboo, has made its appearance in the White mountains.

Loose fragments of granite are everywhere scattered over the mountain, with some specimens of gneiss. The granite is generally gray, and at first fine-grained, but grows coarser as we ascend, and is occasionally sprinkled with small garnets. At the summit it frequently contains a little black tourmaline, sometimes in crossing crystals. On the summit, also, some of the granite is tinged with red, although much of it is colored bright-green by lichens, dampened by the humidity of the clouds, and interspersed with thick and soft gray moss. The grain of the coarse granite is elongated; and what strikes the visiter as very singular, is that not a single rock The weather is liable to frequent is to be found in its original place- changes in the mountainous region, everything bears the mark of removal; which is partly owing to the vicinity of and this, taken into view with the preci- the Notch, through which the wind pice on the northern side, seems to in-blows almost without ceasing, even when