Tahoe

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Excerpt from Tahoe: Or Life in California, A Romance Lake Tahoe and Sierran Villa. "Oh, sweet indeed the rest upon the mountains, This blessed strength from the eternal hills, This draught of life from the purest upland fountains, This sight of heaven that all my vision fills!" Twenty-two miles from the sage-brush capital of the Silver State, far away, 'neath Western skies, in the crown-shaped tops of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, just upon the border line of California, resting in cloudless quiet, lies a lake of surpassing beauty. The scene is lovely "beyond compare." The Western waves of ebbing day, play upon the surface of the calm, smooth, glass-like waters, 'till the eye, tired and dimmed by the reflected brightness, is forced to close and turn away. Fairy haunts have been painted, but where is the artist, whose skillful pencil can picture this scene in all its gorgeous beauty - can give shading to the shining tints of the glistening waters below, or with his brush, paint the colorings of the terraced clouds above? Atmospheric in clearness, dazzling in brightness, and so motionless on this spring evening, as to remind one as he looks upon the bosom of the lake, of the description given of the ice-clad Arctic, by travellers who have ventured far toward the Northern Pole, and stolen a glimpse of chose distant regions. But all ideas of cold, bleak and desolate lands are dissipated, on glancing up. Here tropical verdure greets the eye on every side, and the tall pines of the forest, contrast strangely with the low, richly colored matted ferns and mosses, that border the water, and are reflected from its surface. 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.