Scenic gems of the White Mountains . avorite drive for the summer visitors to North Conway leads across the intervales,—broad, level, fertile meadows of the Saco, dottedwith exquisite elms beneath which flows the quieted and again still fretted waters, to the singular cliffs at the foot of Moat Mountain, the WhiteHorse and Cathedral Ledges, and to Echo Lake. The Echo Lake of Conway, which must not be confounded with that of the same name in theFranconias, covers but a few acres, and, as is apparent from the picture, has a bright sandy shore. The White Horse Ledge rises abruptly fromits western
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . avorite drive for the summer visitors to North Conway leads across the intervales,—broad, level, fertile meadows of the Saco, dottedwith exquisite elms beneath which flows the quieted and again still fretted waters, to the singular cliffs at the foot of Moat Mountain, the WhiteHorse and Cathedral Ledges, and to Echo Lake. The Echo Lake of Conway, which must not be confounded with that of the same name in theFranconias, covers but a few acres, and, as is apparent from the picture, has a bright sandy shore. The White Horse Ledge rises abruptly fromits western border ; in fact overhangs the waters of the lake, in which it is reflected as in a mirror, showing its buff, purple and gray tints in richduplication. These ledges are very apparent to the traveller by railroad train as he approaches North Conway from the west, forming at once asource of wonder at the abruptness of their rise. White Horse Ledge takes its name from the fancied apparition of a pale steed upon its face ofbald GOODRICH FALLS, WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Leaving the railroad at Glen station and embarking within that lesser adjunct to civilization, the stage coach, after an interesting ride offour miles over a road bordered and diversified by forest and fields, and with mountain filled horizon, one reaches the beautiful little village ofJackson on the old stage road between North Conway and the Glen House. With the destruction of the Glen House by fire, just prior to theopening of the season of 1S94, the stage journey, which was a favorite one, from the summit of Mt. Washington down the carriage-road to theGlen, thence on through Jackson to North Conway, or vice versa, fell rather into disuse and finally was abandoned. Recently, however, theproprietors of the big four mountain hotels have revived it with their round-the-mountain trip by stage. Persons who have made this journeywill remember the pause always made by the driver to allow tourists to gaze
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