Scenic gems of the White Mountains . f mountain streams, the Ammonoosuc, whose fretted waters flow tumultuously downthrough rocky gorges until they emerge into the quiet plain which holds the Mt. Pleasant House. Between this point and the Fabyan House,their course i9 less troubled but just beyond the Fabyan they begin again their wild descent which is continued until the Ammonoosuc is mergedinto the Connecticut. Amid dense forests and beside such scenes as the above the ordinary trains from Fabyans advance until the Base station isreached, where is a station-house, a platform and waiting locom
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . f mountain streams, the Ammonoosuc, whose fretted waters flow tumultuously downthrough rocky gorges until they emerge into the quiet plain which holds the Mt. Pleasant House. Between this point and the Fabyan House,their course i9 less troubled but just beyond the Fabyan they begin again their wild descent which is continued until the Ammonoosuc is mergedinto the Connecticut. Amid dense forests and beside such scenes as the above the ordinary trains from Fabyans advance until the Base station isreached, where is a station-house, a platform and waiting locomotives and cars to which all must change to continue the ascent by cog-railway tothe summit. There are generally three of these peculiar trains which follow one another in the ascent and descent. Each locomotive is attachedto one car in the rear and pushes its qnota of the happy throng to the summit. In the descent it occupies the same position and retards by theuse of steam the velocity with which the car would otherwise drop JACOBS LADDER ON MT. WASHINGTON the base station the quaint little train starts immediately upward through a wide aisle cut through the forest and over a grade of onefoot in three. Surmounting the spurs and foothills which wrinkle the base, the foliage and vegetation soon becomes scanty and finally ceases toobscure the view which includes vast areas, dizzy heights and deep gulfs. Jacobs Ladder is a long and massive wooden trestle over which thetrain steams slowly for it is set at the most formidable grade of the entire ascent; 19S0 feet to the mile. At times the train is thirty feet abovethe rocks. Marvelous prospects open upon either hand, and as the train stops to afford time for its patrons to gaze into the immensity of the Gulfof Mexico or the mysterious depths of the Great Gulf, there are few who can do so unawed by the exhibition of infinite power there the air becomes colder and colder, and, if one has left August
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