A City on a Hill (Paris Hill)

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Excerpt from A City on a Hill (Paris Hill): With High Lights That Hit ItA city on a hill cannot be hid - a Biblical state ment so axiomatic that it needs no verification nor explanation. There are many such cities, or rather, perhaps, towns. Almost everyone knows at least one, and admires it, if for no other reason than that it is a shining jewel on the landscape. It is synthetic always rather than natural crystallization, the work of man joining with that of nature in its composition.There is one such town attractive to the writer because it was his place of residence for some twelve years, also that of his father for a period not quite so long - Paris Hill, pioneer settlement, shire town of Oxford County for many years and the home of noted cultured people. I first saw the place when ascending a little rise on a carriage way some five miles south of this central point in the White Mountain foot-hills.Many people have taken this same view from the same place. From such meagre data as we pos sess, the party coming to settle Paris, although it had no name at that date, saw the hill-top from a higher hill-top on what is now known as the Number Four Road. That was away back in 1779. This company was composed of Samuel Jackson, Isaac Jackson and John Willis and John Willis' wife, who was a sister of the Jacksons. They liked the place well enough to want it for a future home, and that is what they made of it.If beauty of scenery was an incentive, it could scarcely have been excelled. To the east were great billows of forest covered domes, but to the west these billowy domes broke and ¿ashed into mountain peaks, mauve beyond the brown and green.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.