Scenic gems of the White Mountains . Starr King, at the edge of mountain forests, and looking down upon the fairJefferson meadows. Outspread before it, across and following up the valley of Israels River, is an immense landslope of mountains, bold andpicturesque to the last degree. Many authorities have attested that this is altogether the best point from which to obtain satisfying views of theWhite Mountains. It is the real Presidential Range that is spread before the vision at Jefferson, not marked by foot-hills and long spurs, butsteep, abrupt, precipitous with distinct and individual peaks
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . Starr King, at the edge of mountain forests, and looking down upon the fairJefferson meadows. Outspread before it, across and following up the valley of Israels River, is an immense landslope of mountains, bold andpicturesque to the last degree. Many authorities have attested that this is altogether the best point from which to obtain satisfying views of theWhite Mountains. It is the real Presidential Range that is spread before the vision at Jefferson, not marked by foot-hills and long spurs, butsteep, abrupt, precipitous with distinct and individual peaks, separated by deep and abyssmal ravines. Mount Starr King, (named in honor ofthe celebrated divine whose glowing descriptions introduced Jefferson to the tourist world way back in the fifties,) is a peak of the Pilot Range, feet high, rising over the village of Jefferson. There are several hotels at Jefferson and among them one, the Waumbek, ranks with any inthe region in point of size, situation or elegance of CHERRY MOUNTAIN—FROM THE WAUMBEK from the plain between Israels River and the Amtnonoosuc is the long, forest-covered and avalanche-scarred ridge of CherryMountain. Its altitude is 3,670 feet. The seam on its side, so plainly showing from Jefferson, is the path of the Stanley slide whichoccurred on July 10th, 1SS5. On that day an avalanche of earth, rocks, and trees descended the Owls-Head Peak of Cherry Mountain,devastating a tract two miles long, wrecking the house of Oscar Stanley which stood at its base, killing his cattle and mortally woundingone of Ihe farm hands. The vast scar of this slide is an object of great curiosity to Jefferson visitors, many of whom delight to exploreit. Not since that night of storm and terror late in August, 1826, when the solid clouds broke like water-spouts against the hills, andhurled vast areas of field and forests into the glens below, that night which witnessed the annihilation of the Willey fami
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