Summer homes among the green hills of Vermont, islands and shores of Lake Champlain, Adirondacks and Canada, reached by the popular Green Mountain route .. . STOWE, VERMOXT. 40 AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL GREEN HILLS OF VERMONT. good farms and substantial buildings. Then it breaks off intothe mountain, and winds about by easy grades to the ascent can be made in any vehicle with the greatest com-fort. The way is thickly wooded with trees indigenous to Ver-mont. Shade is therefore abundant, and the suns rays arelittle felt. As you near the summit, you catch a glimpse of LakeChamplain and the
Summer homes among the green hills of Vermont, islands and shores of Lake Champlain, Adirondacks and Canada, reached by the popular Green Mountain route .. . STOWE, VERMOXT. 40 AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL GREEN HILLS OF VERMONT. good farms and substantial buildings. Then it breaks off intothe mountain, and winds about by easy grades to the ascent can be made in any vehicle with the greatest com-fort. The way is thickly wooded with trees indigenous to Ver-mont. Shade is therefore abundant, and the suns rays arelittle felt. As you near the summit, you catch a glimpse of LakeChamplain and the Adirondacks to the southwest, with Smug-glers Notch at the north which approaches the most beautiful. NEAR STOWE, VERMONT. Alpine scenery. The nose towers up directly above, and theother features stretch away in the distance, massive, solemn andgrand. The highest point, the Chin, is 4,359 feet above sea level,and 3,670 feet above Stowe village, the loftiest peak of VermontsGreen Mountains. It gathers around its base all the eternalsolitudes of nature. In the deep forests, no sound is to beheard save the whir of the partridge, the tread of a bear, or thecrash of a mountain deer as he leaps from crag to gorge. Thegrim solitude of the heights above seems to communicate itselfto the heights below. Dont Fail to Read the Selected list of first-class Family Homes and Hotels forSummer Boarders following Descriptive. AMONG THE HEAUTIFUL GREEN HILLS OF VERMONT. 41 On the mountain crest, the same quiet prevails, brokennow and then only by the scream of an eagle, or the growl ofthunder. The giant who is fabled to sleep beneath the superincum-bent mass of Mansfield never wakes. He lends the outlin
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