. Here and there in New England and Canada . he southern opening ofthe Franconia Notch, with a beautifulview over the open country beyond, andthe cultivated plains of the Pemigewasset, full of ■• ■ / soft and delicate tenderness of forms and the other side, the great forest-clad peaks of the Franconias—the Haystacks of the old-time farmers — rise clear in thefield of vision, near at hand, and very nobly outlined. Something more thanhalf a mile from the hotel, on a side-road traversed daily by many well-filledstages and mountain-wagons, is the great natural curiosity known as theFlume,
. Here and there in New England and Canada . he southern opening ofthe Franconia Notch, with a beautifulview over the open country beyond, andthe cultivated plains of the Pemigewasset, full of ■• ■ / soft and delicate tenderness of forms and the other side, the great forest-clad peaks of the Franconias—the Haystacks of the old-time farmers — rise clear in thefield of vision, near at hand, and very nobly outlined. Something more thanhalf a mile from the hotel, on a side-road traversed daily by many well-filledstages and mountain-wagons, is the great natural curiosity known as theFlume, a fissure seven hundred feet long and sixty feet deep, betw^een fern-draped granite walls from ten to twenty feet apart. A merry little brookflashes and rushes along its bottom, with several bright cascades, and widebands of colorless crystal over the clean granite ledges sloping outside. Informer times, a ponderous bowlder hung suspended between the walls ofthis strange chasm, but an avalanche tore through the Flume in 1SS3, and. ^?®f7^^5^^ 68 swept it awav. In the dark forest to the northward is the Pool, reached bya hah-mile path from the Flume House. Here the Pemigewasset falls witha dull roar into a profoundly deep basin amid the rocks, glowering blacklyunder the shadows of tall cliffs. Not far away, a path leads up to LibertyCascade. Sojourners at the Flume House need not lack for venturesome excur-sions. The bridle-path up Mount Pemigewasset leads to a noble point ofview for the Franconia Range and the great valley to the southward. Boldclimbers have also ascended Mount Flume and Mount Liberty, through path-less and difificult forests. Down on the lowland road is the beginning of thelong path to the Georgianna Falls, far secluded on Harvard Brook. Observation-wagons run twice daily through the Notch, from the ProfileHouse to the Flume. Besides the route to the Profile House by the railway from BethlehemJunction, there is another route from the lowlands, follo
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