... and more invigorating. There is plenty of water, and. the people are far more hospitable and intelligent than in the counties lower down on the river. Climbing these mountains is not so hard as Kearsarge or Mount Washington. Pawpaw, March 7, 1862. It is one great satisfaction to me to reflect that you are not and cannot be here, or know anything of this life, and that in a few months (how lo...