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Show WHO OWNS THE MOUNTAINS? some of the woodland slopes; so I told him their names, adding that there were probably a good many different owners, whose claims taken all together would cover the whole Franconia range of hills. "Well," answered the lad, after a moment of silence, "I don't see what difference that makes. Everybody can look at them." They lay stretched out before us in the level sunlight, the sharp peaks outlined against the sky, the vast ridges of forest sinking smoothly towards the valleys, the deep hollows g athering purple shadows in their bosoms, and the little foothills standing out in rounded promontories of brighter green from the darker mass behind them. Far to the cast, the long comb of Twin Mountain extended itself back into the untrodden wilderness. Mount Garfield lifted a clear-cut pyramid t hrough the translucent air. The huge bulk of Lafayette ascended majestically in front of us, crowned with a rosy diadem of rocks. Eagle Cliff and Bald Mountain stretched their line of scalloped peaks across the entrance to the Notch. Beyond that shadowy ~03 |
