We will make you as comfortable as we can."

This is what happens when fifty years go by. And literally one of my last visits in New Hampshire was on that day, a pathetic day as it proved, which Exeter boys will long remember. We dedicated to good learning and high patriotism two noble buildings which George Shattuck Morison had cared for and for which I believe he paid,

George Morison, the king of American engineers. He died a few weeks after, leaving for us two or three leading studies of American duty which must not be forgotten.

Yes, it is just as it was in Maine. You can box the compass. Things? If you want things, you can have them on a large scale. Men? If you want men, why, we have Daniel Webster. We will not say in this connection here, we have Franklin Pierce. On a small scale, remember that somewhere I have said something of a baby three months of age who was attended by Mrs. Jeremiah Smith when she was Miss Hale, a charming girl of seventeen, who came to visit my dear mother in the public house of Dover.

My father, with some scientific friends, was at that moment attacking "the Notch," as we used to call it, as if there were no other, and ascending by the early pioneer path to the summit of Mount Washington. Year by year people found out how attractive all that region is.

To me, personally, after I saw it on the Geological Survey of New Hampshire in 1841, it became a duty as it became a privilege to go up every summer and thread those forests again. The glory of forests is more than the glory of mountains. I remember I used to say that if the time came of a summer when I did not want to go to New Hampshire, I knew I was out of order somehow and ought to go. And with the first two minutes of forest life Nature asserted herself and I was well again.

If any one wants to travel in New Hampshire and see the central wonders as they revealed themselves to Darby Field, that original Irishman who came up here in 1642, let him make roughly on the margin of this page the letter M.

Then, if he is a New Yorker, he may say: "I will go up by the vertical stroke of the left hand of the M, and I there come to Bethlehem. I will go down from Bethlehem through the Notch till I come to Intervale. I will go up

From a photograph copyright, 1900, by the Detroit Photographic Co. again from Intervale by Pinkham's Notch to Gorham and the Alpine House, and then I will go down on the right-hand vertical of the M and I shall come to Sebago Pond and beautiful Bridgton, and go to Portland, the most

charming of New England cities excepting Burlington."

Now, if he choose, he may go down from Bethlehem through the valley of the Pemigewasset. He may go up to Waterville, highest inhabited land in New England. He may go down to Squam Lake, and see my boys on Harry Sawyer's farm; he may cruise on Winnepesaukee as long as he chooses, and he may go across on foot or on his donkey through Tamworth, Conway, and again to Intervale. He will find Intervale a good centre with memories of old artist days.

But there are other regions to be traversed. You must not venture to talk about New Hampshire till you have been through the Dixville Notch. If you have the real Bohemian spirit in you, you will take a birch canoe (which, believe me, is better than a cedar) at Connecticut Lake, the head of Connecticut River.' Why not look in on Senator Spooner if the Senate has

1 This is as good a place as any to say that Connecticut means a long tidal river, and that the experts spell it quinnehtukqut. Winthrop bought corn in the Connecticut Valley the first year after his people came here.

adjourned? You will come out sunburnt and strong at Saybrook on Long Island Sound. Or, after three or four weeks of happy adventure on Connecticut River, you will go across to Rangeley and try there for salmon trout or

for salmon.

You will find one or two Senators there; or you will study the grandeur of their Lake Country there; or you will wander in the quarries of granite which are just on the eastern side of the line of Maine, but more accessible from New Hampshire.