Papers from Overlook-House

You will not forget our drives, previously, during the day, and late in the afternoon, in consequence of my week day service in the old church. Perhaps the ancient edifice would need the excuse of days of architectural ignorance, but no Cathedral on earth can surpass it, in its claim to occupy a place amid scenes of surpassing beauty and sublimity. There it stands alone, on the slope of an immense hill with the whole range of the mountains from the water-gap to the wind gap full in view glorious walls to sustain the great blue dome of heaven!