Sketches From Memory (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")

Excerpt

It was a bright forenoon, when I set foot on the beach at Burlington, and took leave of the two boatmen in whose little skiff I had voyaged since daylight from Peru.  Not that we had come that morning from South America, but only from the New York shore of Lake Champlain.  The highlands of the coast behind us stretched north and south, in a double range of bold, blue peaks, gazing over each other’s shoulders at the Green Mountains of Vermont.