. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . sented from the river-road, about a mile and a halfabove Gorham; and at the bend of the river, a mile above, is the bestview attainable of Moriah, The Imp and Carter. As for the celebrated drive down the river to the Lead-minebridge, past Granny Starbirds ledge, it has been called the best in NewHampshire for an artistic mingling of river, meadow and mountain;but a party who drove that Sunday morning to Randolph hill and back,said nothiiKj could equal t
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . sented from the river-road, about a mile and a halfabove Gorham; and at the bend of the river, a mile above, is the bestview attainable of Moriah, The Imp and Carter. As for the celebrated drive down the river to the Lead-minebridge, past Granny Starbirds ledge, it has been called the best in NewHampshire for an artistic mingling of river, meadow and mountain;but a party who drove that Sunday morning to Randolph hill and back,said nothiiKj could equal the views they had, so I hesitate to all the mountains within sight have paths to their summits, in 154 re-ard to ^yhicll a o-nide-book should be consulted. The Carter rangepi^sents the greatest difficulties. Mt. Surprise, one of the lower peaksof Moriah, was a favorite point of pilgrimage with Starr King, andMt Haves another; indeed, he seems to have been more fond of tinseastern side of the mountains than of the other, and is said to havewritten the greater part of his immortal book at Gorham. 155 CHAPTER XVI. f HE f In lowly dale, fast by a rivers side, With woody hill oer hill encompassed round.—Thomson. PHERE is the Glen House? asked Prue, when wehad fixed on a time for going thither. In the Glen. Ah! So good of you! Where is the Glen?Between the northern part of the Presiden-tial range and the Carter mountains. If youwill look at your map you will find a narrow val-ley extending north and south and drained by thePeabody river. That is the Peabody glen, orsimply The Glen; and the hotel, which is half way up its length,is named after it. At the head of the river the valley narrowsinto a mere defile, called, in New Hampshire phrase, the Piukliamnotch, on the other side of which the Ellis river flows soutliwardthrough Jackson to the it pretty? In my humble opinion it is the best of all the narrow valleys,for while it does not equal in depth and pr
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