The Lightning Conductor Discovers America

								


E-text prepared by Woodie4, Suzanne Shell, and the Project Gutenberg
Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)

Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this

      file which includes the original illustrations.

      See 29083-h.htm or 29083-h.zip:

      (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29083/pg29083-images.html)

      or

      (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29083/29083-h.zip)

THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR DISCOVERS AMERICA
by
C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON
Illustrated

Published by
Doubleday Page & Company
Garden City         New York
Copyright, 1916, by
C. N. And A. M. Williamson
All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian

*

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS



   Patricia Moore                              Frontispiece

                                                         PAGE



   Long Island



     "There's absolutely nothing like it on the other

     side of the water, not even in Devonshire or

     Dorset"                                               87



   Easthampton



     "You enter beside the Great Pond, which is so

     charming in itself and in its flat frame of village

     green"                                                95



   Long Island--South shore



     "Artists would find a paradise of queer, cozy

     gables, and corners of gardens crowded with

     old-fashioned flowers"                               102



     "Southampton's soul is very, very old, full of

     memories of Indians"                                 122



   Sunnyside



     "Washington Irving's dear old Dutch house is

     like a beautiful living body with his memory

     for its soul"                                        190



     "The old Dutch Church at Tarrytown"                  197



   The Hudson River



     "When we came into sudden sight of the river

     there was a magical effect"                          207



   Delaware Water Gap

     "Winding and wonderful it was in beauty"             213



     "The mountains seem cleft in twain. It's a

     marvellous effect--startling"                        216



   York

     A bit of the rock-bound Maine coast                  303



   "The air is spiced with the fragrance of balsam

     fir...on the way to Crawford Notch"                  310



   "The young, slender birches of the mountain

     wayside"                                             319



   Crawford's Notch, White Mountains                      324



   "I shall always think of Vermont as the State

     of wild lawns and gardens"                           330



   "We found the Green Mountains particularly

     lovable"                                             336



   Captain Winston's maps pages 90, 114, 132, 209,

     216, 239, 258, 295, 311, 325, 331, and 339