. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . ofscenery in its neighborhood, such as the Screw-auger falls, .whereBear river twists through a spiral channel in a series of sunken cas-cades ; the Jail, a semi-circular abyss worn by some former vagary ofthe stream, and the Devils Horseshoe, — an impression in the rocksof a cataract-bank, singularly true to the size and shape suggested, lU — and finally the profound chasm, or sink-hole into which legend saysa wounded moose once plunged. At the bottom
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . ofscenery in its neighborhood, such as the Screw-auger falls, .whereBear river twists through a spiral channel in a series of sunken cas-cades ; the Jail, a semi-circular abyss worn by some former vagary ofthe stream, and the Devils Horseshoe, — an impression in the rocksof a cataract-bank, singularly true to the size and shape suggested, lU — and finally the profound chasm, or sink-hole into which legend saysa wounded moose once plunged. At the bottom flows a large andnoisy stream, which, as if the gloom of the lofty w^alls which hem itin, and the sombre stillness of the surrounding forest did not suffi-ciently guard its pri-vacy, plunges beneatha huge mass of super-incumbent rock. . .and disappears fromsight. Grafton notch leftbehind, the countryliecomes more old Popple tavernand Newry cornersare left in turn, andat the mouth of Bearriver the broad inter-vales of the Andros-coggin come in sight,with that crookedriver meanderingthrough them. Cross-in i; Bet\r river we. SCREW-AUGER FALLS, GRAFTON NOTCH. Androscoggin, amazed at the cultivation, serene turn up the mainbeauty and warmth of tlie scene after the cold and almost forbiddingsternness of the scenery to which we have long been accustomed;and so roll swiftly into the elm-embowered streets of Bethel. 145 chaptp:r XV. Bethel a^d I^orham. The mountains, indeed, that they may show their dignity and communicate theirfavors, require to be approached with great painstaking and peculiar respect.— Bartol.
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