Popular resorts, and how to reach them . onway, we haveour own opinion that it yields more pleasure when nature is freshand redolent with the sweet breath of spring, or in the later seasonwhen valley and hillside are resplendent with the crimson and gold ofautumn; and the same is true of the entire mountain toin*. To be sure,the chilly nights must be prepared for; and, if properly provided for inthat respect, one need fear no discomfort. At this point passengers who left Boston by the Eastern or Boston andMaine Railroads for the White Mountains join our train. Six miles from North Conway is Gl
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . onway, we haveour own opinion that it yields more pleasure when nature is freshand redolent with the sweet breath of spring, or in the later seasonwhen valley and hillside are resplendent with the crimson and gold ofautumn; and the same is true of the entire mountain toin*. To be sure,the chilly nights must be prepared for; and, if properly provided for inthat respect, one need fear no discomfort. At this point passengers who left Boston by the Eastern or Boston andMaine Railroads for the White Mountains join our train. Six miles from North Conway is Glen Station, where stages are inreadiness to convey passengers to Jackson (two miles), or to the GlenHouse fourteen miles distant by way of Pinkhara Notch, one of thethree great highways which nature itself has hewn through the mountainwilderness. Six miles beyond we reach Upper Bartlett, shut in on allsides by high mountains, the situation j^ossessing many elements ofbeauty, in some respects resembling North Conway and its DIANAS BATHS. POPULAR KESORTS, AND HOW TO BEACH THEM. The railroad is already built from this point to Frankenstein Cliff,nine miles distant; with every indication that early in July the entiretrip from Portland to the Crawford and Fabyan Houses will be accom-plished in the cars. Leaving Upper Baitlett, the road keeps to the valley for some sixmibs, delaying till the last moment the steeper ascent it must sooncommence; and the mountains, in seeming displeasure at this bold at-tempt to penetrate their hiding-places, draw closer together as if to dis-pute the passage. But onward we ride into the dark shadows of th ^hills, crossing and recrossing the Saco, or leaping torrents rushing fromthe mountain side to join the larger stream. Just before reaching BemisStation, we cross Nanc//^^ Brook, of memorable fame. At Bemis weshall see the old Crawford Homestead with its pretty clearing, and theresidence of Dr. Bemis, built of granite quarried from thes
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