Scenic gems of the White Mountains . PRESIDENTIAL RANGE—FROM MT. WASHINGTON. The view-line from Mt. Washington has a circumference of nearly one thousand miles, embracing points in five states, and in the Dominionof Canada. Looking down across the lower peaks of the Presidential Range, toward the Crawford Notch, the attendant peaks on Washingtonstand like giants in array, guarding the approach to the premier of the range. Mt. Monroe, 5,384 feet in altitude; Mt. Franklin 4,904 feet; (in Maine) 2,oiS feet; Mt. Webster, 4,000 feet, the latter forming the giant wall of the Crawiord Not
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . PRESIDENTIAL RANGE—FROM MT. WASHINGTON. The view-line from Mt. Washington has a circumference of nearly one thousand miles, embracing points in five states, and in the Dominionof Canada. Looking down across the lower peaks of the Presidential Range, toward the Crawford Notch, the attendant peaks on Washingtonstand like giants in array, guarding the approach to the premier of the range. Mt. Monroe, 5,384 feet in altitude; Mt. Franklin 4,904 feet; (in Maine) 2,oiS feet; Mt. Webster, 4,000 feet, the latter forming the giant wall of the Crawiord Notch, upon the right hand side of thevalley as one approaches the Crawford House. There are higher peaks, many of them, in the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountains of theCarolinas, but none have enjoyed, or deserve so wide a popularity, are so beautiful in outline or coloring, or are so accessible to all, as thosemonarchs of New England ABOVE THE CLOUDS—MT. WASHINGTON, N. H. If there be one pageant more impressive than another, when viewed from these heights, it is the by no means rare moments when the Artistof the Clouds is shifting and changing their movements round the peaks, or tumbling the great folds forward and backward. Then the massivewalls of mist are rolled over the chasms on the sides of Mt. Washington, and are tumbled against Mts. Adams and Madison, as if in solemn frolicwith their peers. Meanwhile the mists are welcoming the first beams of the morning sun, which gives to them royal sky tints. Mt. Washingtonssummit is a great field for cloud-play. No matter how great may be the promise of a cloudless day, the scuds of clouds soon begin to play aroundit, or some heavy mist will be caught by it and retained, to hang like a coronet upon the mountains brow. Then begin those wonderful trans-formation scenes, so edifying to those above, so obscuring and consequently disappointing to those in the valley below
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