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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Fairhaven. 178 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. of land and sea and sky—such a landscape as the most gifted painter would despair ofbeing able to imitate. Just beyond Beacon Hill is the little town of Highlands, where the hotels mostdo congregate. Here there is every charm to seduce the town-lorn citizen from hisweary streets. He may wander amid the leafy retreats of the hill, once peopled by deerand other creatures of the woods, and now such a forest as that of Arden could scarcelyexcel: or he may sail on the smooth waters of the river, and cast his line for the bass
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Calking on the Neversink. and the blue-fish; or, crossing to the sandy beach where the surf of the wide ocean rollsin upon him, plunge into the breakers until his heart and his muscles gather freshnessand strength from the brief battle with Old Ocean. It is a delicious and sometimes astirring picture that may be seen from these hills. One may sit, fanned by great trees,inhaling the odors of grass and woods, and watch the far expanse of sea, on the surfaceof which ships ceaselessly come and go; and then at times rises the storm, and thefierce breakers come tumbling in upon the beach with a wild roar, bursting high into THE NEVERSINK HIGHLANDS. 179 the air in spray, while the ships go rushing by with furled sails like great, fright-ened birds. Our course lies along under these hills, the river continuing narrow; but soon itwidens, and presently we find two forks—one that keeps close along the sea, anotherthat trends a little way inland. These forks are known locally as South and WestS

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