. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . go. It is worth while to look backward and watch the shapelyand entangled summits recede and regroup themselves. The ponderous,purple-hucd front of Willard seems to bar the waj ahead, while oppositeus the shaggy walls of Webster and Jackson, mottled with autumncolors, scarred with slides and breaking out in black blotches ofrock, rise sharply up from the Saco caiion, where we look far downinto a dense mass of variegated foliage and get glimpses of the b
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . go. It is worth while to look backward and watch the shapelyand entangled summits recede and regroup themselves. The ponderous,purple-hucd front of Willard seems to bar the waj ahead, while oppositeus the shaggy walls of Webster and Jackson, mottled with autumncolors, scarred with slides and breaking out in black blotches ofrock, rise sharply up from the Saco caiion, where we look far downinto a dense mass of variegated foliage and get glimpses of the brightstream. This is the very chasm itself and we are awed, interested, fullof admiration, overwhelmed with an embarrassment of riches inscenery. Then comes a breathless leap across the chasm of Willeybrook — a perilous rush along the outskirts of the mountain wall — agliding from under the dark battlements of Willard — a passagebetween the stately pillars of the neiv Gate of the Notch — and thenwith a triumphant blast of the whistle, we emerge into the sunlightand space of the little park at Crawfords station. 215 CHAPTER It Iorth (SoNWTiY. I know the shaggy hills about, The meadows smooth and wide; The plains that toward the southern sky, Fenced east and west by mountains lie. pORTH CONWAY has been the principal rendez-vous for tourists to the White Mountains eversince the tribe began its peregrinations. Its extra-broad bottom-lands attracted set-tlers so early that when the Revolution beganthere were nearly 300 people in the town (ofwhich this part is the northern edge), who notonly offered recruits to the Continental army,but maintained a company of rangers scoutingm their o^vn woods. By this time a road had been built northward toGorham and Lancaster, and upon the close of the war, when the turn-pike through the Notch was completed, Conway became an importantand busy station. Those were its best days, but by the time the long trains of frei-htwagons ceased t
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