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20. - is delightful. The hills andvalleys and waterfalls arepicturesque and sublime.All along the road beautifulgroves of sugar maplesshade and diversify the country.These in the warm seasonmust be delightful.Returned home with a sick-headachethe first I have hadsince I have been in N. H.May 21. Weather very cold indeed; socold, that as we rode toSo. Charlestown Depot, to takethe cars for Nashua, we reallyshivered. In taking thisride, I anticipated a greatdeal of pleasure; and I was21 - not disappointed. I cannot describeto anyone the happinessI enjoyed in viewing the beautiesof Nature along the road.The first stopping-place wasBellows Falls. VA. and hereNature seems to have unitedbeauty with sublimity, thepleasing with the magnificent.Here I would willingly havelingered, and grown pure-mindedin contemplatingthe sublime scenery. The riverroaring and tumbling over therocks in its bed, on one side,on the other Fall mountain,rising almost perpendicularlyand well wooded even to the
Date Original
1855
Dates Covered
1855 (May-July)
Source
Original diary dimensions: 9.5 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
Locke_Diary_1855_Image_010.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
Delia Locke, diaries, women, diarist, California, Locke-Hammond Family Papers, Lockeford, CA, Dean Jewett Locke, rural life, rural California, 19th Century, church, temperance organizations, Mokelumne River Ladies' Sewing Circle, temperature recordings, journal
