. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . Base Station, the distance covered by thecog-railway is about three miles, and the average grade is1,300 feet to the mile. At its greatest gradient it is nearly2,000 feet to the mile. Its famous trestle, or Jac°rjs Lad-der, together with its peculiarly shaped locomotives, arefamiliar to millions of Americans who have never seen them,through the medium of printed illustrations and descriptions. Trains running over rails of standard gauge take thetourist from Fabyan and Bretton Woods to Base Station (boththe Bosto
. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . Base Station, the distance covered by thecog-railway is about three miles, and the average grade is1,300 feet to the mile. At its greatest gradient it is nearly2,000 feet to the mile. Its famous trestle, or Jac°rjs Lad-der, together with its peculiarly shaped locomotives, arefamiliar to millions of Americans who have never seen them,through the medium of printed illustrations and descriptions. Trains running over rails of standard gauge take thetourist from Fabyan and Bretton Woods to Base Station (boththe Boston & Maine and Maine Central Railroads meeting atthe former stations), and at the Base the passengers changeto the cog-railway, which conveys them to the summit by a slowyet all too rapid journey. The ever-changing panorama spreadout before the eye of the ascending tourist, the differentiationsof air and flora, the stop at the brink of the awesome Gulf,and the final disembarkation at the summit of the great emi-nence, nearly a mile and a quarter above the sea, form a series.
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