Scenic gems of the White Mountains . MOUNT ADAMS AND MOUNT MADISON FROM THE MT. WASHINGTON Adams adjoins Mt. Washington on the further or Androscoggin side of the Presidential Range. In altitude it is but fivehundred feet lower than Mt. Washington ; while as to symmetry of shape over all the group it bears the palm. Its peak resembles a clear-cut pyramid rising freely from a rocky ridge, and tianked by minor masses of rock. Its height, its form, its seclusion and its astoundingviews render it a great favorite with all mountaineers. Mt. Madison lies next beyond Adams and is
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . MOUNT ADAMS AND MOUNT MADISON FROM THE MT. WASHINGTON Adams adjoins Mt. Washington on the further or Androscoggin side of the Presidential Range. In altitude it is but fivehundred feet lower than Mt. Washington ; while as to symmetry of shape over all the group it bears the palm. Its peak resembles a clear-cut pyramid rising freely from a rocky ridge, and tianked by minor masses of rock. Its height, its form, its seclusion and its astoundingviews render it a great favorite with all mountaineers. Mt. Madison lies next beyond Adams and is the giant warder of the AndroscogginValley. Madison is 5,365 feet high, to Adams 5,794 feet. The two, as shown above, are very graceful and symmetrical mountains; Adamswith its pyramidal dome, and Madison with its narrow ridge-crest of weather-beaten rock all above the timber-belt in the zone of perpetualcold. From their summits long flanking ridges descend into the APPROACH TO THE SUMMIT HOUSE—THE LIZZIE BOURNE last mile of track from the Gulf Tank, a water station on the Mt. Washington Railway, to the summit rises but eight hundred feet, thesteepest part of the ascent having been accomplished. The roadbed now makes a sweeping curve and shortly after passing the Lizzie BourneMonument (a land-mark which all desire to see) reaches a level line on the summit of Mt. Washington and steams beside a platform which liesbefore the doors of the Summit House. The ascent has occupied one and one-half hours and the train has come three miles to overcome an alti-tude of one and one-half miles. Inasmuch as the grades, n6feet to the mile, surmounted by the standard railroad are the highest whichcan be operated to advantage by the ordinary methods, it-will be seen what extraordinary measures are necessary to surmount grades of nearlytwo thousand feet to the mile. This is the pioneer of all mountain-climbing railways ; those in other parts of the w
Size: 1898px × 1317px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidscenicgemsof, bookyear1900
