days. Its outlook is over the South Shoals, but not a sail is to be seen, for these shoals are the grave of every vessel getting upon them. It is a dismal reminder of vanished maritime prestige to see about the Nantucket coasts the gaunt ribs of the old hulks, half sunken in the sands where they have been cast ashore, as year by year they gradually break up in the great storms and slowly disappear. In the Boston Daily Advertiser a poet plaintively mourns the fate of these marine skeletons seen "at midnight off the coast":

"Half-tombed in drifting sands upon the shore
Are ye, and heedless lashed by angry seas,
As through your blackened ribs the breeze
Exultant plays, and crested breakers roar,
And screeching sea-gulls round thee, prostrate, soar.
Wert thou allured by sighs of moaning trees,

As sirens sought to charm with songs like these
Ulysses and his brave companions o'er

To reefs deep hidden, silent, save in storm?
The rolling thunder of the sullen surge,

The mournful sobbing of the gathering gale,
Plain answer make, as round the spectre form
Of these gaunt skeletons they ceaseless scourge
The giant's battered coat of oaken mail !”

THE CONNECTICUT RIVER AND

WHITE MOUNTAINS.

XVII.

THE CONNECTICUT RIVER AND WHITE MOUNTAINS. The Long Tidal River-Middletown-Wethersfield-Blue Hills of Southington-Meriden-Berlin-Hartford-The Charter Oak-Samuel Colt and the Revolver-New Britain-Enfield Rapids-Windsor Locks-Agawam-Springfield and the Armory-Westfield River-Brookfield-Chicopee Falls-Hadley Falls-Holyoke-Mount Tom-Mount Holyoke-Nonotuck-Northampton-Old Hadley and its Street-The Ox-Bow -Goffe and Whalley-Mount Holyoke College-AmherstDeerfield River and Old Deerfield-Greenfield-Shelburne Falls-Brattleboro'-Ashuelot River-Keene-Mount Monadnock-Williams River-Bellows Falls-Lake SunapeeWindsor, Vermont-Ascutney Mountain-White RiverOlcott Falls-Hanover-Dartmouth College--MooseilaukeNewbury-Wells River-Littleton-Passumpsic River-St. Johnsbury-Lake Memphramagog-Dixville Notch-Lake Umbagog-Rangeley Lakes-Connecticut Lakes-Source of the Connecticut-White Mountains-Ammonoosuc RiverBethlehem-Gale River-Sugar Hill-Franconia NotchCoos-Echo Lake-Profile Lake-Old Man of the Mountain-Pemigewasset River-Flume and Pool-North Woodstock-Plymouth-Squam Lake-Ethan's Pond-Thoreau and the Merrimack-White Mountain Notch-Israel River. -Jefferson-Lancaster-Fabyan's-Crawford's-The Presidential Range-Saco River-Willey Slide-View from Mount Willard-Giant's Grave-Mount Washington-Grand Gulf -The Summit and View-Tuckerman's Ravine-The Glen -Pinkham Notch-Peabody River-Gorham-Androscoggin River-Ellis River-Jackson-Lower Bartlett-Intervale-North Conway-Mount Kearsarge-Pequawket-Madison-Ossipee-Lake Winnepesaukee-Sandwich MountainsChocorua-Wolfboro'-Weirs-Alton Bay-Centre HarborRed Hill-Whittier's Poetry on the Lake and the Merrimack.