. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. From Conway to The Notch the distance is thlrty-tAvo miles,and is travelled by stage in half a day ; so that from Boston to theCrawford House, at the foot of the White Mountain range, resting inConway only, requires, by the Saco route, a day and a half. Thewhole ride up from the hotel in Conway, if the day is clear, is a con-tinuous delight to one who has an outside seat on the stage. By themeadows of North Conway, and in full view of the White Mountainbattlements that frown upon that village from the north ; by the 14 THE WHITE HILLS. c
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. From Conway to The Notch the distance is thlrty-tAvo miles,and is travelled by stage in half a day ; so that from Boston to theCrawford House, at the foot of the White Mountain range, resting inConway only, requires, by the Saco route, a day and a half. Thewhole ride up from the hotel in Conway, if the day is clear, is a con-tinuous delight to one who has an outside seat on the stage. By themeadows of North Conway, and in full view of the White Mountainbattlements that frown upon that village from the north ; by the 14 THE WHITE HILLS. charming Kiarsarge, which, long after it is passed, draws the eye tolook back upon it, still hungry for the exquisite droop of its folds, asof drapery falling from a ring ; through the Bartlett village, which isonly a long winding lane among steep hills, cool with thick and dark. tJl^^^osig^s::^: - green verdure ; into, and soon out of, the little mountain basin overwhich the clumsy crest of Mount Crawford peers—a perpetual monu-ment to the old patriarch of the district, Avho kept, for years, a smallinn for travellers in this secluded bowl, and drove a team, four inhand, to the Crawford House, when he was over eighty ; and sixmiles further on, until two mountain lines shoot across each other,and, by a sudden turn of the road, open, and allow us to ride intothe pass, Avhere the abnip. momit:iin breaks,And seems with its accumulated cragsTo overhang the world;— thus we are swept on, and find that no two miles of the ride arernonotonous, and that each hour introduces us to scenery of fresb THE FOUR ^ 15 character and charm. After the Crawford House is reached throughthe upper gateway of The Notch, where there is just room, underthe decaying crags that face each other, for the Httle mill-stream ofthe Saco and the road; after Mount Willard has been asc
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