[Rattlesnake Gal]

By Thomas Starr King
Engraved by Andrew, From Drawings by Wheelock
Crosby and Nichols
1864

Lake Winnipiseogee

“In those happy spots of nature where land ana water, above and below, combine their charms, it is hard to tell whether the stony upland height, or the liquid deep beneath, most lures the sight. I believe it was Goethe who first said that lakes are the eyes of the landscape; ana if there be reason for such a figure, it is not strange such features in the countenance of the world should fix our regard. Certainly they add to that countenance the same sort of brightness and animation which the organs of vision give to the human face; and as our glance, verusing the living traits of a man, is never satisfied till it reaches his eye, so on the earth, we seek after water, and are not quite content till our attention, long vagrant, rests upon it.”