. Here and there in New England and Canada . of theV a s t p r e c i p i c e which falls away toward the Saco, he gains one of the finest possible birds-eye views of a great mountain-pass, where road and railway and windingriver and jewel-like cascades glimmer out from a curving sea of green. Atthe end of this remarkable vista is the ghostly white peak of Chocorua, downin the Lake Country; and in the other direction. Mount Washington liftsits noble form far into the blue sky. The most famous of White-Mountainexplorers counsels people to visit Mount Willard late in the afternoon, tostudy and en
. Here and there in New England and Canada . of theV a s t p r e c i p i c e which falls away toward the Saco, he gains one of the finest possible birds-eye views of a great mountain-pass, where road and railway and windingriver and jewel-like cascades glimmer out from a curving sea of green. Atthe end of this remarkable vista is the ghostly white peak of Chocorua, downin the Lake Country; and in the other direction. Mount Washington liftsits noble form far into the blue sky. The most famous of White-Mountainexplorers counsels people to visit Mount Willard late in the afternoon, tostudy and enjoy the wonderful shadow effects in the Notch. The man forwhom so noble a monument as this mountain is named was Joseph Willard,clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk County (Mass.), whoclimbed to its summit, with Tom Crawford, in 1846, they being the firstpersons who ever looked from this peak. Crawford gave the name. A pathwas made in 1848, and a road in 1855. •Six miles down the Notch art; the famous Ripley Falls, on Avalanche. 48 Brook, high up on Mount Willey, and reached by a foot-path the neigh-boring flag-station on the railway- Farther down, on the Bemis Brook, magnificent Arethusa Falls, 176 feet high, amid fine are only a mile from the railway, but there is no path, and so they arevery rarely visited. The great range that enwalls the Crawford valley on the west is eightmiles long, from the Ammonoosuc lowlands to the plateau beyond MountWilley, and contains Mount Tom, named after Tom Crawford, the proprietorof the ancient Notch House; Mount Field, commemorating Darby Field,the first white visitor to Mount Washington (in 1642); and Mount Willey, anoble alpine peak, ascended by an Appalachian-Club path one and a halfmiles long, leaving the railway a little way south of the flag-station atMoores Brook. This sequestered summit commands a singularly interestingview over the great Pemigewasset wilderness, and along the Presidential
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