Scenic gems of the White Mountains . MT. WASHINGTON, FROM THE LOWER GATEWAY, CRaWFORD NOTCH. This view, with Mt. Washington rising in snow-capped majesty upon the right centre, supported by the attendant peaks of the PresidentialRange, is generally termed the First view of Mt. Washington, as it is the first to be disclosed to those visitors who journey toward cloudlandfrom the sea at Portland. Immediately after entering the lower gateway to the Crawford Notch, there appears through a rift in the foothillswhich crowd around the narrow valley, this grand inspiring picture. It is one of the grand
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . MT. WASHINGTON, FROM THE LOWER GATEWAY, CRaWFORD NOTCH. This view, with Mt. Washington rising in snow-capped majesty upon the right centre, supported by the attendant peaks of the PresidentialRange, is generally termed the First view of Mt. Washington, as it is the first to be disclosed to those visitors who journey toward cloudlandfrom the sea at Portland. Immediately after entering the lower gateway to the Crawford Notch, there appears through a rift in the foothillswhich crowd around the narrow valley, this grand inspiring picture. It is one of the grandest possible views of Mt. Washington with the greatpeak nobly and suitably enframed between its high southern spurs. Seen from the railroad train the exhibition is over almost as soon asdisclosed, for the passing of the train again hides his majesty. To the left in the above picture rise high the stern iron-bound Frankensteincliffs, below which is an equally precipitous gorge, spanned by a thread of steel, the Frankenstein MT. WASHINGTON FROM THE every point of view among the White Mountains, Mt. Washington forms the central figure. Both from the East-side, and from theWest-side it is impossible to separate it, and it stands upon neutral ground amid the rivalry of attractions which each can muster. Seen fromacross the idylic meadows of the Sacos intervales it fills the Northern horizon, and, with such a foreground as the intervales afford renders thisa particularly charming picture. The Intervale hamlet is a most charming part of the larger village of North Conway, two miles distant. Herethe wide green meadows open away iipon the left, overhung upon the farther edge by tall cliffs and garlanded by groves of elms and willowsmarking the course of the mountain-born Saco. From the heart of Waumbek Methna, from the lake which never failsFlows the Saco into the cool lap of Conways intervales.
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