. New England; a human interest geographical reader. hreemiles long. When its inventor applied to the legis-lature for a charter, the scheme seemed so impossiblethat a member sarcastically moved to give the appli-cant leave to build a railway to the moon. It wascompleted in 1869. A bridle-path was cut to the top in 1819, and thenext year some gentlemen stayed on the summitovernight and named the different peaks of what hassince been known as the Presidential Range. Thenames are those of the early presidents, Washington,Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson. More and more visitors came
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. hreemiles long. When its inventor applied to the legis-lature for a charter, the scheme seemed so impossiblethat a member sarcastically moved to give the appli-cant leave to build a railway to the moon. It wascompleted in 1869. A bridle-path was cut to the top in 1819, and thenext year some gentlemen stayed on the summitovernight and named the different peaks of what hassince been known as the Presidential Range. Thenames are those of the early presidents, Washington,Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson. More and more visitors came to the mountains, andin 1853 a house was erected on the summit of MountWashington. All the buildings there have to be madesecure by anchoring with numerous cables and could not otherwise withstand the fierce gales,for on this bleak height the wind has registered the 264 New England amazing velocity of one hundred and eighty miles anhour. Clouds are apt to hover about the summit, and onthe journey up or down you are likely to pass through. The Presidential Range, so called because its peaks bear thenames of six early Presidents of the United States their gray mists. The view from the top is very wide-reaching on a clear day, and Mount Katahdin in Mainecan be seen off on the northeastern horizon one hun-dred and fifty miles away. Every three hundred feet above the sea level bringsthe temperature down about one degree, which meansa difference of twenty degrees in the case of the sum-mit of Mount Washington. The air there is nearlyalways cool, and in winter the mercury has been knownto go down to fifty degrees below zero. The White Mountains 265 Aside from the mountains themselves and their wildnotches there are several attractions, such as EchoLake, the Old Man of the Mountain, and the Flume,which every visitor wishes to see. Echo Lake in the Franconia Notch is a dainty bodyof water with steep wooded heights rising from its bor-ders. If you stand on the shore opposite t
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