. Here and there in New England and Canada . inter has hidden parts of it under fallen trees. Beyond Bartlett, the railroad sweeps around the great bend of the valley,and begins a steeper ascent, with impressive views of the mountain-peaks on 42 all sides. Sawyers Rock and Nancys Brook, with their quaint and patheticlegends, are passed, and then we come to Bemis station, near the old andlong-since-abandoned Mount-Crawford House. This is in the centre ofHarts Location, a wilderness-tract of many thousands of acres, grantedbefore the Re%olutionary War, by Gov. Wentworth, to Thomas Chadbourne,a g
. Here and there in New England and Canada . inter has hidden parts of it under fallen trees. Beyond Bartlett, the railroad sweeps around the great bend of the valley,and begins a steeper ascent, with impressive views of the mountain-peaks on 42 all sides. Sawyers Rock and Nancys Brook, with their quaint and patheticlegends, are passed, and then we come to Bemis station, near the old andlong-since-abandoned Mount-Crawford House. This is in the centre ofHarts Location, a wilderness-tract of many thousands of acres, grantedbefore the Re%olutionary War, by Gov. Wentworth, to Thomas Chadbourne,a gallant veteran of the Indian wars, and sold by him for fifteen hundreddollars, to Richard Hart. Nearly a century ago, a primitive inn was openedhere by Abel Crawford, the patriarch of the mountains, who spent thegreater part of his life amid these wild and lonely glens, living to see themvisited by a steadily increasing company of summer-tourists. In later years,— alons; amono; the forties,— N. T. P. Davis became the landlord, and built. THE MOUNTAINS, FROM UPPER BARTLETT. a new bridle-path up Mount Washington, over the now unvisited MontalbanRidge, and by Mount Isolation. In those days, the inn was frequented b}Ripley, Starr King, Daniel Webster, and other famous men, who enjoyedthe fishing to be found in the mountain-brooks. Nearly fifty years ago, thedomain, with all its miles of rugged highlands, passed into the possession ofDr. Samuel Bemis, a wealthy and eccentric Boston dentist, who built thestone mansion near the station, and lived here until his death, in 1881. Formany years, the glen has been deserted by summer-travellers, who find hereno accommodations for boarding. Bevond the picturesque Crawford Glen, the railway strikes a very heavyup-grade of 116 feet to the mile, and labors along the slopes of tremendous 43 cliffs, with the red peak of Mount Crawford visible across the valley, and thehuge treads of the Giants-Stairs Mountain, clear-cut against the eastern sk
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