Book/Printed Material Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. B. L. Ball on Mount Washington, during October 25, 26, and 27, 1855
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Image 1 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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- Date: 1856
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Image 3 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... V f O ^°-ni. ^^1^ 4 o- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 4 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 5 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 6 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 7 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THREE DAYS OK THE WHITE MOUNTAINS; BEING ^Ijf |n-i[aiis ^.^nttiu-i; OP DR. E L BALL ON INIOUNT WASHINaTON DURI N a OCTOBER 25, 2G, Ax\D 27, 1855. WRITTEN BY HIJISELF, BOSTON: PUBLISHED...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 8 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... Entered according to Act of Congress, in the j^ear 1856, by B. L. BALL, In the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the District of :Slassachusetts. Stereotyped fcj HORART ROB...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 9 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... PKEFACE. The following narrative of mj trip to the White Moun- tains is induced from the urgent desires of many friends, as well as strangers, to see in print a detailed account...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 10 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 11 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THREE DAYS ON THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. PRELIMINARIES. It was not from choice that I made my trip to the White Mountains in the fall of the year, instead of in the summer....- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 12 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... PRELIIMINARIES. my time was employed in the preparation of my travels, Rambles in Eastern Asia, and week after week sped away without affording me the desired opportunity. Still later I was detained...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 13 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THE JOURNEY. up the idea of a trip this season), promising to be the commencement of continued fair weather. The previous evening, in making a call at the house of a friend,...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 14 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 8 THE JOUENEY. dark, I was disappointed in finding no train in continuance for Gorham before the next day, and I remained at the Commercial House for the night. The following morning...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 15 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... ARRIVAL. 9 the hotel fronted, they are off there seven or eight miles. You will not be able to see them short of the Glen House, unless this fog clears away. In...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 16 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 10 AREIVAL. No, sir; you will not probably be able to see them to-day. At all events, not till after the weather has cleared up. I am somewhat disappointed, as I came...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 17 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... ARRIVAL. 11 You might walk up on the new road a piece, if that would be any satisfaction. The new road what is that? It is a carriage road, which is being...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 18 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 12 WALK ON THE CARRIAGE ROAD. To this Mr. Thompson answered You will find noth- ing in your way there; but I would by no means attempt to go to the summit....- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 19 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... WALK ON THE CARRIAGE ROAD. 13 The Camp House I had passed, leaving it on my right some fifty rods behind, and, by its proximity to the Ledge and its nearness to...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 20 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 14 STOP AT THE CAMP HOUSE. Ledge suddenly appeared at my feet below me. I descended the rocks by sliding from one to the other, scarcely able to see them, but without...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 21 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THE FIRST DAY. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25TH. The morning dawned. Little did I contemplate, as the first streaks of light peered through the window over my couch, that the evening shadows of that...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 22 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 16 THE FIRST DAY. already half way up the Mountain. It is only four miles from here, and I should be able to return by noon even from the summit; for it...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 23 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THE ASCENT. 17 night, and then to proceed on in the morning but thcj were determined to go. It was a sad sight when they brought her over the Ledge, the day...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 24 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 18 THE FIRST DAY. Bears! said I; you do PxOt mean to say that there are bears at that height Sometimes there are. We frequently see their tracks about. Very well, said...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 25 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THE ASCENT. 19 rocks. I kept a good lookout, in case he or his companions were hovering about. Several times I saw one some distance ahead but, on coming up, it invariably...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 26 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 20 THE FIRST DAY. render the Mountain clear. I thought it very likely that I might continue on to the summit, though I should have to allow myself more time than would...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 27 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THE ASCENT. 21 but from which side I could not know, and in what direc- tion lay the land beyond was equally as difficult to determine. But three-fourths of the distance I...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 28 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 22 THE FIRST DAY. matches, lamps, clothes and bedding for the night, an arrange- ment reflecting much credit on the part of the proprietor. It is to be regretted, however, that, against...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 29 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... T II E A S C E N T 23 time in the attempt to ascend the cone of the Marapee, in Java, in spite of the assurances of the natives that...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 30 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 24 THEFIRSTDAY. As I toiled on, I experienced an unusual pain in tlie bones of my face, and, putting up my hand, found the face completely encompassed by a body of ice....- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 31 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THE SUMMIT. 25 have precipitately turned about and abandoned further effort. I reconciled myself that each step forward was so much gained, although, in gaining that step, often several were lost backward,...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 32 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 26 THEFIRSTDAY. of miles around. If ten hurricanes had been in deadly strife with each other, it could have been no worse. The winds, as if locked in mortal embrace, tore along,...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 33 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THESUMMIT. 27 tunate lady who died here. And, if it is, the Summit House is near. How much better can I now realize the difficulty of her situation Crouching beside the rock,...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 34 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 28 THEFIRSTDAY. With difficulty I cling to them. My eyes are strained to every side, endeavoring to penetrate the fierce deluge of driving snow. Everywhere it is the same not a dark...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 35 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THE SUMMIT. 29 And yet, perhaps, I am mistaken. This Mountain may be the third, instead of the fourth. I may have counted one that is not reckoned as a Mountain, in...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 36 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 30 THEFIKSTDAY. be useless to continue longer. Afterwards I felt cold streams running through me from the rock, and my head had sunk upon my breast. Then it seemed as if I...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 37 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THE DESCENT. 31 last, to find a shelter, to rest, and to refresh my body with warmth, and, remaining until the storm was over, to start anew. A little before this I...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 38 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 32 THEFIRSTDAY. purpose, I endeavored to attach, some importance to them as being in some way connected with the Summit House. Then, from the unevenness and irregularity of the surface, seeing that...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 39 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... THE DESCENT. 33 rendered it necessary. Generally the next stake could be detected from the one behind; but, when delays occurred in searching for them, the opportunity was made use of to...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856
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Image 40 of Three days on the White Mountains : being the perilous adventure of Dr. ... 84 THEFIRSTDAY. waste, in the midst of this storm, and soon in darkness I will continue doiv?iwa7 d, and in any course where I shall be able to thread my way, for...- Contributor: Hawkins, Rush C. (Rush Christopher) - Ball, B. L. (Benjamin Lincoln) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856