NEW HAMPSHIRE, Mount Jefferson - Antique Print

Mount Jefferson
New Hampshire - White Mountains
Artist:  n/a, Engraver: n/a
From: Meyer's Universum

100+ years old art print ... in excellent condition ... reverse side is blank !

Size: Size of the image: 4 1/4 x 6 1/4; overall, including margins: 7 x 10 1/4 inches.
Condition: Excellent condition.  Printed on heavier paper.
 

From the original description:
IN looking in this direction from the elevated, summit of Mount Washington, the eye drops upon a region of climate entirely different from that on its southeastern side. The towns of Lancaster and Jefferson, though something north of the White Mountains, enjoy a benign, tranquil atmosphere, such as is not known for two or three hundred miles farther south, and with the beauty of the scenery and the number of water-courses, it is a little Arcadia in the  bosom of the north.  The peculiar climate felt here, is owing to the proximity of the White Mountains, which form a wall of thirty miles from north to south,    either checking entirely the easterly winds, or elevating them into a region far above the surface. The westerly winds, again, impinging against the mountains, (but in an elevated part,) are arrested, leaving the towns below in the same tranquillity as is felt by a person coming near a large building in a  high wind.

   The snow rarely lies permanently here until after the tenth or fifteenth of December, and generally leaves it about the middle of March: at this time the earth is usually free from frost.  A stick forced through the snow in the month of February enters the earth without difficulty, the snow falling so early as to  prevent the frost from penetrating to any depth, and dissolving the little which had previously existed.  Hence the pastures become suddenly green, and  cattle are safely turned into them in the middle of April; the time of pasturage is, therefore, as long here as in Connecticut.   In this manner that tedious period, known as the breaking up of the frost, is here chiefly prevented; and the warm season is annually lengthened,  so far as the purposes of gardening  and agriculture are concerned, about a month every year.