Scenic gems of the White Mountains . HE LIZZIE BOURNE last mile of track from the Gulf Tank, a water station on the Mt. Washington Railway, to the summit rises but eight hundred feet, thesteepest part of the ascent having been accomplished. The roadbed now makes a sweeping curve and shortly after passing the Lizzie BourneMonument (a land-mark which all desire to see) reaches a level line on the summit of Mt. Washington and steams beside a platform which liesbefore the doors of the Summit House. The ascent has occupied one and one-half hours and the train has come three miles to ov
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . HE LIZZIE BOURNE last mile of track from the Gulf Tank, a water station on the Mt. Washington Railway, to the summit rises but eight hundred feet, thesteepest part of the ascent having been accomplished. The roadbed now makes a sweeping curve and shortly after passing the Lizzie BourneMonument (a land-mark which all desire to see) reaches a level line on the summit of Mt. Washington and steams beside a platform which liesbefore the doors of the Summit House. The ascent has occupied one and one-half hours and the train has come three miles to overcome an alti-tude of one and one-half miles. Inasmuch as the grades, n6feet to the mile, surmounted by the standard railroad are the highest whichcan be operated to advantage by the ordinary methods, it-will be seen what extraordinary measures are necessary to surmount grades of nearlytwo thousand feet to the mile. This is the pioneer of all mountain-climbing railways ; those in other parts of the world being copies of LAKE OF THE CLOUDS—NEAR THE SUMMIT OF MT. Lakes of the Clouds, for they are two, which are fed by springs from one side of Mt Washington and whose waters are collectedin a natural bowl high up near the summit of the giant peak, at an altitude of 5,053 feet, are wierd and most interesting, for one doesnot expect to find water remaining passive at such an altitude. Only the overflow, however, escapes to form the Ammonoosuc , hermit lakes they are, secluded and not often visited by the casual tourist to the summit who journeys by rail from base to crown;yet from the signal station on the summit, where one of the best all-round views may be obtained, one may look down upon the Lakes ofthe Clouds in all their hidden solemnity. These are lakes in which no foliage is ever mirrored, which no water-fowl ever only by rock fragments, the result of the labors of frost and intense cold, which for ages have rough-hewn
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