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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
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Column Rock, Dixville Notch. THE NEVERSINK HIGHLANDS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GRANVILLE PERKINS.
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Mouth of the Shrewsbury River. nP*HE Neversink Highlands have the post of honor among the American hills. They-*- stand near the principal portal of the continent—the first land to greet thecurious eyes of the stranger, and to cheer the heart of the returning wanderer. Thebeauty of these wooded heights, the charming villas that stud their sides, the grace oftheir undulating lines, give to the traveller prompt assurance that the country he visitsis not only blessed with rare natural beauty, but that art and culture have suitablyadorned it. The delight with which the wearied ocean-voyager greets the shores thatfirst rise upon the horizon has often been described; but, when these shores have a raresylvan beauty that opens hour by hour to view as the vessel draws near—when, insteadof frowning rocks or barren sands, he beholds noble hills clothed to their brows withgreen forests, fields and meadows basking with summer beauty in the sun, cottages nes-tling amid shrubbery, and spires lif

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