. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . tter than the softer foliage and more rounded lines that characterizethe still beautiful steeps of Carolina and Virginia. A glance at the map, or a first acquaintance with the mountains, 14(? presents to the eye an almost inextrical)le jumble; but a little studysolves this into two general masses, divided by the valley of theSaco, opening southeastward, and that of the Amonoosuc (whose sourceis closely adjacent), which opens in the opposite direction. O
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . tter than the softer foliage and more rounded lines that characterizethe still beautiful steeps of Carolina and Virginia. A glance at the map, or a first acquaintance with the mountains, 14(? presents to the eye an almost inextrical)le jumble; but a little studysolves this into two general masses, divided by the valley of theSaco, opening southeastward, and that of the Amonoosuc (whose sourceis closely adjacent), which opens in the opposite direction. On thenorth and east are the Mt. Washington or Presidential range (theWhite Mountains proper), with its outliers, the Pilot, Jackson andChatham mountains, forming a northerly mass, the general axis of whichextends northwest and southeast. South and west of the two riversmentioned lies the other mass of elevations, represented by the Fran-conia range, tlie line of sunnnits extending from Trii)yramid to TheTwins. Moat mountain, the Sandwich range and the lofty uplift bearingMoosilauke ami Kinsman. The general axis of these is uoarlv nortli. ENTKAXCE TO CARTER NOTCH FROM GORIIAM. and south. The geological survey of the state counts ten distinctgroups or ranges; but for my purpose it is enough to indicate thesetwo main masses, which are separated by the Crawford notch. Though there are hotels and a few small sunnner settlements in themidst of the peaks, and well-travelled roads penetrate most of thegorges, all the villages are on the outskirts of the mountains, in thevalleys of rivers forming the avenues of approach. Kailways nowskirt the mountains on every side, and cross the middle of them, withbranches to Mt. Washington, the Profile House, Bethlehem, Jeffersonand Lancaster. Elsewhere, stages run,— the same big, red, four or six-horse coaches identified with all that was exciting and poetic in themountain tour a generation ago. To every point of importance, and by 147 almost eve
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