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NEW YORK:
OAKSMITH & COMPANY, 371 BROADWAY.

MDCCCLVIII.

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A Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art.

VOL. X.-JULY, 1857.-NO. LV.

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HE casual visitor, who whirls to and over the White Hills of New Hampshire, is amazed and gratified with the solid grandeur and the varied beauty of the scenes through which he may be borne, even with the hot haste of modVOL. X.-]

ern traveling facilities, but there are few who avail themselves of the example and advice of Webster, to select a temporary home beneath the broad shadows of these mountains, and to roam each day over and among them until they become theirs.

"Go thither," says the statesman, "prepared to stay, to study, to feel them. These old settlers are tardy in forming intimate acquaintanceships. Their externals they give to the eye in a moment, upon a clear day; but their true character-their occasional moods of superior majesty - all that makes them a real refreshment, a force, a joy only to the calmer eye-only to him for the rest of your years-they show who waits sufficiently long to unthink his city habits, and bide their time. 90947

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