. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . hichsurround the hamlet are finely contrasted with the rich and narrowintervales of the Saco. Many of the adjacent mountains are ascendable, and the views from 211 the summits of Langdon and Tremont, in particular, have been pro-nounced of a high degree of grandeur. Carrigain is more remote,jungle-girt and difficult of access, but is higher than any other (4,678feet) and divided from Mt. Lowell (3,850 feet) by the Carrigain notch,whose walls are remarl^
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . hichsurround the hamlet are finely contrasted with the rich and narrowintervales of the Saco. Many of the adjacent mountains are ascendable, and the views from 211 the summits of Langdon and Tremont, in particular, have been pro-nounced of a high degree of grandeur. Carrigain is more remote,jungle-girt and difficult of access, but is higher than any other (4,678feet) and divided from Mt. Lowell (3,850 feet) by the Carrigain notch,whose walls are remarl^ably precipitous. It has often been surmounted,however, even by ladies. Mt. Carrigain stands almost exactly in the centre of the vast groupof the White and Franconia mountains, and .... is a marked featurein the landscape from almost every point of view. Conversely, theview from Carrigain must embrace the whole mountain mass, and must sweep around over all the principal summits Ranges and notches, huge mountains and broad valleys, never seen from the points commonlyvisited in this region, are spread all around. From its central position. THE MOUKTAINS, FROM UPPER BARTLETT. a better idea of the arrangement of the White and Franconia mountainsis had than from any other point, perhaps, in the whole group. Closeto Carrigain on the other side is the almost unexplored mass of , almost as lofty. Upper Bartlett has long been an important outlet and milling pointfor the lumbering operations in the Pemigewasset basin; and withinthe past year a railway has been pushed into the wilderness as far asthe Albany intervales. A new and entertaining side-trip is thus openedto tourists, in regard to which I shall have more to say presently. 212 When the uorth-bound express came along, we boarded it, on ourreturn to Crawfords. That ride by railroad through the Notch is, to most travellers, thecrowning and best-remembered experience of their White Mountainjourne3ings. Almost as soon as the
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