Show on brount washington the view from mount washington 19 says my iny guide book with pardonable enthusiasm thusia sm is incomparably grand asa matter of fact it is a good view but still quite comparable and not good enough in proportion to the elevation you are arc at the saine height as on the top of the loigi but oh ob what a difference diffie rence mount washington towers as tho the actually highest peak anywhere around whereas tho rigi stands a mere observatory in the center of a girdle of mountains all infinitely grander and nobler than itself I 1 dont want to make I 1 odorous comparisons about the incomparable I 1 merely mean that all things considered comi dered the view view from the american mountain is not quite so fine as one might naturally have expected it to be for its height beight above sea level por for one tiling there is little or no water wate r in sig sight gh t only a stray lake or two shimmering pond like m in the remoter remoler distance no near tarns as in the deep combes of snowdon ab nb no sea as from den ben netis ne and helvellyn Helve llyn no winding meres as when ono one looks town down on lucerne and zurich rather a tumultuous mob of surging mountains like the he serried ranks of tho the deesire deeside lulls hills from top of tile loll 1011 still I 1 will frankly admit it is a rna magnificent ent prospect in its own way west 1 1 ward through tho faint blue haze the I 1 camel s trump hump awl tile iho green moun mountains of vermont loom indistinctly on oil th the cloudy horizon eastward the other great peaks of the presidential range 0 jefferson attains adams madison adison 11 risi rising ng 10 lo above the limit of trees and with their gaunt bare su summits of loose strewn boulders bowl ders remind me more of cader idris and of the condon Coi idon near toulon than of any other masses I 1 have lave seen anywhere southward tho the more wooded and lid l rounded tops of kearsarge and its giant neighbors recall rather st catherines peak and tho the blue mountains of jamaica grant allen alien in longmans Longman 8 Mag magazine azime |