. Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices .. . Wash-ington itself. In this way a more adequate conception isgained of its immense mass and majestic we pass above the line of the carriage-road to thebarren portion of the mountain, there are grand picturesat the south and east of the Androscoggin Valley, andthe long, heavily-wooded Carter range. Indeed, nothingwhich the day can show will give more astonishmentthan the spectacle which opens after passing through thespectral fo
. Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices .. . Wash-ington itself. In this way a more adequate conception isgained of its immense mass and majestic we pass above the line of the carriage-road to thebarren portion of the mountain, there are grand picturesat the south and east of the Androscoggin Valley, andthe long, heavily-wooded Carter range. Indeed, nothingwhich the day can show will give more astonishmentthan the spectacle which opens after passing through thespectral forest, made u]3 of acres of trees, leafless, peeled,and bleached, and riding out upon the ledge. Those whomake thus their first acquaintance with a mountain heightvvall feel, in looking down into the immense hollow inwhich the Glen House is a dot, and off upon the vastgreen breastwork of Mount Carter, that language mustbe stretched and intensified to answer for the new sensa-tions awakened. We shall never forget the iDhrase whicha friend once used—an artist in expression as in feeling,and not given under strong stimulant to superlatives—as. Berlin Falls, White Mountains. LAKES, EIYERS, AND MOUNTAINS. 75 lie looked, for the first time, from tlie ledge ii23on thesquare miles of undulating wilderness : See the tumultu-ous bombast of the landscape V Yet the glory of theview is, after all, the four highest companion mountainsof the range, Clay, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, that showthemselves in a bending line beyond the tremendousgorge at the right of the path, absurdly called the Gfulfof Mexico, and are visible from their roots to their sum-mits. These mountains are not seen on the ascent fromthe Notch, being hidden by the dome of JNIount Washing-ton itself. On the Glen path these grand forms tower sonear iis that it seems at first as thouo^h a strons; armmight throw a stone across the Gulf and hit them. Thereshould be a resting-place near the edge of the ravine,where parties cou
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