. Here and there in New England and Canada . d crags of storm-worn rock. It affords a scene of great desolation andstartling interest, the arrowy spires of the cliffs resembling the forgottenruins of some Western Petra. These triumphant walls attain a height ofnine hundred feet above the ravine, in whose bottom a narrow road findsbarely room to wind away toward the Umbagog plains. Of mmor attrac-tions.— the Flume, the Ice Cave, Table Rock, Jacobs Ladder, Huntingtons 74 Cascades, and others,— the Xotch has its full share; and paths lead upwardto beautiful view-points along the ridge, and throug
. Here and there in New England and Canada . d crags of storm-worn rock. It affords a scene of great desolation andstartling interest, the arrowy spires of the cliffs resembling the forgottenruins of some Western Petra. These triumphant walls attain a height ofnine hundred feet above the ravine, in whose bottom a narrow road findsbarely room to wind away toward the Umbagog plains. Of mmor attrac-tions.— the Flume, the Ice Cave, Table Rock, Jacobs Ladder, Huntingtons 74 Cascades, and others,— the Xotch has its full share; and paths lead upwardto beautiful view-points along the ridge, and through the quiet forests tobrooks beloved by trout. For these wild northern townships are among thebest fishing and hunting grounds in New England. At the eastern end of the Xotch, the pastoral beauty of the Clear-StreamMeadows is outspread like a little Italy, after the descent from the alpineheights behind. A few miles farther, through the great forest, and the lonelyroad reaches Errol Dam, the little port whence the steamboats run to Lake. THE PINNACLES. Umbagog and the Upper Magalloway River. Thence also roads divergeto ^nian and Berlin, and to Upton and Bethel, names of much import tosummer-travellers beyond the limiting lines of the fashionable tour. Andthe transit of the famous Rangeley Lakes may also be entered. 75 CHAPTER XVI. THE MERRIMAC ROUTE. The Lowell System. — A Run across Middlesex. — The Rivek-CiTiEs.— Lake Winnipesaukee and its Joyous City. THE glories of the mountain-land as entered by the great defile of theSaco River, and reached by the sea-shore route from Boston, havebeen hereinbefore rapidly sketched out. Let us now return to thefamous old Puritan city down on Massachusetts Bay, and re-enter thehighlands by the western route, across busy Middlesex, and up the longvalley of the Merrimac. This avenue of approach lies over the the Boston & Maine Railroad; and starts from the splendidterminal station, on Causewav Street, Boston.
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