. Here and there in New England and Canada . d men, managing a tavern for the farmers ofthe Coos country on their way to and from Portland. In August, 1826, agreat landslide came down from Mount Wille\-, and the inmates of the house,fleeing forth in dismay, were overtaken and crushed to death by the swiftavalanche. Nothing was ever found of three of the children, but the mutil-ated bodies of the other six persons were recovered. The house remainedintact, and is visited by thousands of tourists every summer. The last great excursion from the Crawford House, and one of the mostattractive and lea
. Here and there in New England and Canada . d men, managing a tavern for the farmers ofthe Coos country on their way to and from Portland. In August, 1826, agreat landslide came down from Mount Wille\-, and the inmates of the house,fleeing forth in dismay, were overtaken and crushed to death by the swiftavalanche. Nothing was ever found of three of the children, but the mutil-ated bodies of the other six persons were recovered. The house remainedintact, and is visited by thousands of tourists every summer. The last great excursion from the Crawford House, and one of the mostattractive and least easy in this region, is that which leads over the CrawfordPath to the summit of Mount Washington. This route was built by TomCrawford in 1840, and over it Abel Crawford rode the first horse that reachedthe top of Washington. For many years it was used as a bridle-path, overwhich travellers ascended on horseback; but since the mountain has beenmade more easily accessible from other points, the use of horses has been i.^ i ^ WW 49 ■^^^... 49 abandoned. Good climbers, on a clear day, can make this royal journey togreat advantage, but several ghastly fatalities have resulted from inexperi-enced and unguided tourists attempting the trip on days of cloud or chief points of the route are as follows : Three miles of hard climbingthrough the woods to the upper shoulder of Mount Clinton; one and three-quarters miles along the bare ridge, with noble views on either side, toMount Pleasant (whose dome-like grassy top may be ascended, or flanked) ;three-quarters of a mile, by Red Pond, and around the profound ravine ofOakess Gulf, to Mount Franklin; one and a quarter miles, around OakessGulf, to Mount Monroe (whose fine castellated peaks should be visited, byan easy detour); one and three-quarters miles, with the bare plateau ofBootts Spur on the right and the Lakes of the Clouds on the left, and thena breathless clamber upward over the rocky cone, to the Summit House. Itis a w
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