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    that on their eastern sides they exhibit portions of bare rock , which wear a somewhat light hue at a distance ; and as they were first discovered from this quarter , hence their misnomer . As we approached Worcester , the country became sloping toward the west , and exhibited a wide prospect in that direction , bounded upon tfye horizon by a long ridge of highlands ,, so darkly blue , and so little broken by undulations , that it might have been mistaken for the ocean . Two isolated mountains , Wachusett and

    Monadnock , in different points toward the north , accompany the traveller ' s view for a long distance . Westward the countrygrows more hilly and picturesque ; the hills are loftier and more peaked . We stopped at Leicester , which stands on the top of a hill , an uncommon situation in these parts . Here we found an immense school-house , or academy , built on the model of the

    Parthenon , and painted as white as snow . Tis a pity that so many fine edifices in this country are of wood , when the best building stone in the world is to be found at every step . But it is easier to chop timber than to hammer granite ; and your Yankee hates to lose time . ' Ask me for anything but time , ' said Napoleon . We passed Ware valley , a beautiful little dell ,

    four or five miles long and a mile in breadth , skirted by hills of the most graceful shape ; their sides chequered and variegated with farms , tracts of black forest , green meadow land , orchards , &c . The southern part of the valley is occupied by the charming little village of Ware ; all the houses are painted white and red , and as neat as toys . A little stream winds down the valley , and completes the beauty of the prospect .

    Late in the evening we reached the Connecticut , where the river rolls its broad volume of clear waters through the rich flat of the Northampton meadows . A covered wooden bridge here crosses the stream , passing- which I found myself in the town of Northampton . Early the next morning I was climbing the steep ascent of Mount Holyoke , which overlooks the town and neighbourhood , and is celebrated for its prospect . This eminence is

    of no great height for a mountain , but owes all to its happy situation . There is no danger of spoiling the effect of a first sight by catching occasional glimpses as you ascend , for the path upward winds all the way through a wood so thick as to shut out not only the prospect , but the beams of the noon-day sun . At the summit the whole bursts upon you at once . Nothing can

    exceed the beauty of the meadows under your feet , through which the ( Connecticut winds its serpentine course . The rye grounds are of a bright golden colour , the maize fields of the liveliest green , the pastures and orchards present every fresh hue of verdure , like a rich carpet , in which the brightest colours are intermixed and contrasted . The whole surface of the meadows is sprinkled with trees , singly or in groups , and the banks of the river are fringed in the neatest manner with trees and shrubbery .

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    94 American Sketches *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/14/