Good Company 1879 1880 Vol 4 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Good Company, 1880, Vol. 5 The summit of nipple-top mountain has been trodden by few white men of good character; it is in the heart of a hirsute wilderness; it is itself a rough and unsocial pile of granite nearly five thousand feet high, bristling with a stunted and unpleas ant growth of firs and balsams, and there is no earthly reason why a person should go there. Therefore we went. In the party of three there was of course a chaplain. The guide was Old Mountain Phelps, who had made the ascent once before, but not from the north-west side, the direction from which we approached it. The enthusiasm of this philosopher has grown with his years, and outlived his endurance; we carried our own knapsacks and supplies, therefore, and drew upon him for nothing but moral reflections and a general knowledge of the wilderness. Our first day's route was through the Gill brook woods and up one of its branches to the head of Caribou Pass, which separates nipple-top from Colvin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.