. The Maine central. A journal of travel . beit there is a connectingstandard gauge line from Fabyans to theBase station six miles away across the wildAmmonoosuc plain. The tiny trains creepup the steep incline over the broad shouldersof Mt. Washington to the Summit House,crowning the topmost peak. After a good dinner, Concord wagonsand buckboards are taken for the trip downthe carriage road winding around and everdown the precipitous sides of Mt. Washing-ton to the site of the old Glen House at thebase. Tally-ho coaches are taken then byDarbyville Cottage, through the PinkhamNotch, stoping en
. The Maine central. A journal of travel . beit there is a connectingstandard gauge line from Fabyans to theBase station six miles away across the wildAmmonoosuc plain. The tiny trains creepup the steep incline over the broad shouldersof Mt. Washington to the Summit House,crowning the topmost peak. After a good dinner, Concord wagonsand buckboards are taken for the trip downthe carriage road winding around and everdown the precipitous sides of Mt. Washing-ton to the site of the old Glen House at thebase. Tally-ho coaches are taken then byDarbyville Cottage, through the PinkhamNotch, stoping en route at the Crystal andFlume cascades and on to Jackson with its Wentworth Hall and mine host GeneralWentworlh. After a brief stop at Goodrich Falls, the coaches bowl along to Glen Maine Central Railroad is here taken for the trip through the famous CrawfordNotch of the White Mountains to Crawfords and Fabyans in time for supper, com-pleting what is conceded by European travelers to be the grandest one day trip in the COL. W. A. Mountain House. Far beyond the Crawford Notch, way in the uppermost corner of New Hampshire, at theheadquarters of the lordly Connecticut river, there is a haven of refuge for the world-wearyones and a wonderful sanitarium for the hay-fever afflicted ones in The Balsams in DixvilleNotch. Colebrook, New Hampshire, on theMaine Central, is the railroad station forreaching this resort, and we are happy tostate that improved train service has beenarranged for the season of i S98, which nowsupplies the only requisite to a perfectsummer resort. Via Intervale and theCrawford Notch one can leave Portland , or Boston at , Interval(North Conway) at , arrive atLancaster at and Colebrook insuring the arrival at The Balsamsin time for supper. Returning one can leaveColebrook at , arrive at Intervaleat 3 , Boston via Intervale at ,Portland at 5 and Boston,
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