[Anna Loring and Ellis Gray Loring] AL to [Lousia Loring], July 7, 1850

Williamstown:
Sunday Evening: July 7, 1850.

Dear Mother, Today and yesterday have not been
very eventful to us, yet as I know you will like to
hear everything we are seeing and doing, I fullfil
my promise and will write you a letter of, to you
interesting nothings - We have had one magnificent
expedition- to the Snow Hole yesterday, we were gone
from eight oclock until two- During that time quite a
change was affected in my appearance, as I started
pale and fair & returned, crimson as a peony - I am
brown now - The ride was most beautiful, now through
deep thick silent forests, so thick that we could only
see a few rods round us and then emerging upon
the ridge of some hill with deep precipices and green
valleys beneath us while mountains upon mountains
lay piled up and stretched out on all sides of us -
yet with all this wonderful beauty we said many
times to each other that we were glad you were
not with us - I think you would hardly have enjoyed
anything - Such roads! After travelling for some
time over what our driver called a road, but what I
call a rugged, precipitous rocky cart path, finally
came to a hill actually steeper than the side of Cory's
hill in Brookline that we used to find so hard to
climb, and with no more vestige of a path than there
is there - To my astonishment the driver quietly di-