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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 4: College Life.—September, 1826, to September, 1830.—age, 15-19. (search)
M. (17th), and walked through Greenwich, a very pretty and pleasant town, situated on a plain, observing Mt. Pomroy and Mt. Liz; thence to Enfield, and arrived at Amherst after a most toilsome journey through the hottest part of the day. The people in most of the towns through which we passed were perfectly astonished, and utterl were taken for United States officers, and at Dana we were asked if we were on a peddling-voyage. In another place we were taken for factory-boys. The sight of Amherst and its college buildings, and the students, who were not yet relieved from their tasks, was grateful to the weary Harvard lads. Fatigued more than before by thewe passed, by way of Sterling and Barre, to Amherst, where, arriving weary and footsore, we refreshed ourselves at the evening prayer in the college chapel. From Amherst we walked to Northampton, and then, ascending Mount Holyoke, saw the valley of the Connecticut spread out before us, with river of silver winding through meadows