. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . UPPER MAGALLOWAY. down this beautiful thoroughfare seem generally to care nothing aboutthis scenery; but one day, when coming down the river, as weturned this bend, an old fellow on the boat who caught the viewjust at the right moment, was for an instant brought to a realizing 138 sense of the beauties of nature, and, looking at me, said, • I snumnow, Mister, if that aint the purtiest sight 1 ever saw. Except some stony ledges, like that at Fulpit rock,
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . UPPER MAGALLOWAY. down this beautiful thoroughfare seem generally to care nothing aboutthis scenery; but one day, when coming down the river, as weturned this bend, an old fellow on the boat who caught the viewjust at the right moment, was for an instant brought to a realizing 138 sense of the beauties of nature, and, looking at me, said, • I snumnow, Mister, if that aint the purtiest sight 1 ever saw. Except some stony ledges, like that at Fulpit rock, the foliage and>edge that shut in the river is unbroken for ten miles, at the end ofwhich humanity is recalled by a log cabin at the mouth of Bottlel)rook. A few moments later the lower landing is reached, amongfarms, and upon a wagon road along the right bank. Though it isonly two miles by land to the Berlin Mills IIouso. the distance is sixl)y water. Tliis ride of six miles, lieading to every point of the compass in. DIAMOND PEAKS. , succession, is a delight- , ful experiencco Mts. Dustan and Aziscoosare dodging around you continually now, first on one side and then on the other, while the peculiarly shaped Diamondpeaks, some miles above, occasionally put in an appearance. All ofthese mountains, with intervening ridges, are lofty and savage heightson the western side of the river, and from the northernmost extensionof the White ]\Iountains. Dustan and Aziscoos are beautifully conspicu-ous from the Richardson lakes and Umbagog, while the Diamondpeaks, now first well seen, resemble twin stumps of mountains (exactcopies of one another) which have been truncated at a similar levelby the plow of the continental glacier, or by some other evenly actingagency. They are reputed to get their name from the Diamond riverwhich flows past them from distant sources in the Coos County forest; 130 but. perhaps, on the contrarj, the river takes its name from them, inreference to their od
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