id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 04-pioneers_004-1793 James Fenimore Cooper 04-pioneers_004-1793 1793 .txt text/plain 3571 98 56 Immediately beneath them lay a seeming plain, glittering without in equality, and buried in mountains. But these and many other unpleasant additions to the view were unseen by the delighted Elizabeth, who, as the horses moved down the side of the mountain, saw only in gross the cluster of houses that lay like a map at her feet; the fifty smokes that were curling from the valley to the clouds; the frozen lake as it lay imbedded in mountains of evergreen, with the long shadows of the pines on its white surface, lengthening in the setting sun; the dark ribbon of water that gushed from the outlet and was winding its way toward the distant Chesapeake--the altered, though still remembered, scenes of her child hood. cache/04-pioneers_004-1793.txt txt/04-pioneers_004-1793.txt