Scenic gems of the White Mountains . on, boast of its own superiority, but none we venture to say, can excel the course at the Mt. Pleasant House with its mag-nificent setting among the mountains and within close touch with the grand, hospitable hotel. The links shown above, where championVardon is playing the first hole, he having driven from the tee in front of the hotel shown on the preceding page, consist of a nine hole course of2,200 yards ; very sporty and with fine level putting greens. The turf is delightful and one will marvel on being told that previous to the golfinginterest, which
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . on, boast of its own superiority, but none we venture to say, can excel the course at the Mt. Pleasant House with its mag-nificent setting among the mountains and within close touch with the grand, hospitable hotel. The links shown above, where championVardon is playing the first hole, he having driven from the tee in front of the hotel shown on the preceding page, consist of a nine hole course of2,200 yards ; very sporty and with fine level putting greens. The turf is delightful and one will marvel on being told that previous to the golfinginterest, which is of not so great an age, this Ammoonoosuc Valley was a waste of rocks, briars, yea, even worse, unpicturesque stumps, all ofwhich have been carefully removed. Several of the tees are on elevations, like that in the centre-distance where is the summer-house. The firstdrive is from the hotel across the river, the green being reached by crossing the foot bridge which here appears crowded by the gallery intent onfollowing the DAM AND STREAM AT THE BASE OF MT. WASHINGTON, WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NEW landscape about the base of Mt. Washington is rough to an extreme. Giant boulders are here mingled with tree trunks and stubs confusion. Through these obstructions the waters from the overflow of the Lake of the Clouds, near the summit of the premier of therange, find their way to form one of the most picturesque of mountain streams, the Ammonoosuc, whose fretted waters flow tumultuously downthrough rocky gorges until they emerge into the quiet plain which holds the Mt. Pleasant House. Between this point and the Fabyan House,their course i9 less troubled but just beyond the Fabyan they begin again their wild descent which is continued until the Ammonoosuc is mergedinto the Connecticut. Amid dense forests and beside such scenes as the above the ordinary trains from Fabyans advance until the Base station isreached, where is a station-house, a platform and wa
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