This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...that singular archway, and the lake below, could hardly be found, even in the composition of a landscape painter. The long sheet of water narrows to this point, like a receding aisle ending at a glittering altar-step, and far down is a little fairy island standing out from the shore--the garden of wild-flowers, perhaps ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...that singular archway, and the lake below, could hardly be found, even in the composition of a landscape painter. The long sheet of water narrows to this point, like a receding aisle ending at a glittering altar-step, and far down is a little fairy island standing out from the shore--the garden of wild-flowers, perhaps, to which the descending stream has its errand. What Naiad, of name as yet by poet unuttered, comes down those bright steps through the hemlock grove, and, laying off her foaming mantle under the rocky porch, glides silently along the smooth floor of the lake? Here is a poem in the mountains--wanting only its echo inked over. Torrey once sent a friend to see this bridge, and he THE NATURAL BRIDGE. 261 rode across it without suspecting it was under him, though he might seat his country congregation (our friend was a clergyman) under shelter of the rock. It is part of the common horse-path around the head of the lake. There is no daylight to be seen under it, however. The stream, on the upper side, dashes into a dark cave and is lost to sight; and it comes out of another dark cave on the lower side, the two caves being separated by a partition of solid rock, under the deep-down foundations of which the water finds its invisible way. The well, across which this partition rock extends, is open on the side next the lake, and has been plummeted to the depth of sixty feet. It is always kept full by springs, even when the cascade dries up with summer-heats--a reservoir of cool and pure water, ready made for the happy scenery-lover who will one day make his home upon this prettiest cottage-site in the world. I hope to stand upon the bridge and look down the lake to that fair island, in June, when the lake itself is islanded in leaves. My friend moused...
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