. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. the Crawford House by all personswho have only ascended through it from Conway, by the stage. Theymil find a turn in the road, not a mile from the gateway, where threetremendous rocky lines sweep down to a focus from Mount Willard,Mount Webster, and Mount Willey. There is more character in thisview than in the aspect of the open gorge at the Willey House. Thisis the Notch in bud, with its power concentrated and suggested to theimagination. At the Willey House it is all open; you stand betweenwalls two miles long, and there are no ragged,
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. the Crawford House by all personswho have only ascended through it from Conway, by the stage. Theymil find a turn in the road, not a mile from the gateway, where threetremendous rocky lines sweep down to a focus from Mount Willard,Mount Webster, and Mount Willey. There is more character in thisview than in the aspect of the open gorge at the Willey House. Thisis the Notch in bud, with its power concentrated and suggested to theimagination. At the Willey House it is all open; you stand betweenwalls two miles long, and there are no ragged, nervous lines of rockrunning down from a cloud, or lying sharp against the blue distance. THE SACO \ ALLEY. 203 Especially if one can take a walk or flrive to the point we speak of,near the Crawford House, late in a clear afternoon, he will be doublyrepaid by the sight of one of these mountain edges sweeping down hishadow to the haggard ruins at its base, and of the other glistening indelicate and cheerful gold. A moonlight view at the same spot gives. the contrast no less marked and impressive, in blackness on one sideand silver on the other. But to know the Notch truly, one must take the drive from theCrawford House to the top of Mount Willard, and look doAvn into man stands there as an ant miffht stand on the ed:e of a huge 204 THE WHITE tureen. AVe are lifted twelve hundred feet over the gulf on thebrink of an almost perpendicular wall, and see the sides, Webster andWilley, rising on either hand eight hundred feet higher still, andrunning off two or three miles towards the Willey House. The roadbelow is a mere bird-track. The long battlements that, from thefront of the Willey House, tower on each side so savagely, from thispoint seem to flow down in charming curves to meet at the stream,which looks like the slender keel from which spring up the ribs thatform the hold of a tremendous line-of-battle ship on the stocks. Butperhaps we suggest a more exact and nobl
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