. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . ose long slopes approach within twomiles of the street. To the north-northwest, about sixteen miles dis-tant, is the peak of Mt. Washington, about which several of the othermain mountains are clustered. In an opposite direction the vallev ofthe Saco opens to the south, over long stretches of fertile lowlands 216 banded by the groves that enclose the river. The village is 521 feetabove the sea, or 32 feet lower than Centre Harbor. Xorth Conway isthe chie
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . ose long slopes approach within twomiles of the street. To the north-northwest, about sixteen miles dis-tant, is the peak of Mt. Washington, about which several of the othermain mountains are clustered. In an opposite direction the vallev ofthe Saco opens to the south, over long stretches of fertile lowlands 216 banded by the groves that enclose the river. The village is 521 feetabove the sea, or 32 feet lower than Centre Harbor. Xorth Conway isthe chief snmmer-resort among the White Mountains, and is occupiedby city people from early May until liite October. Tlie height of theseason is in August, when over 3,000 tourists are sojourning the heated term it is warmer tlian Bethlehem, but cooler thanthe villages of tlie lalce-country. Evening gayeties are much patron-ized, and there are hops, concerts, and readings in the halls of the chiefhotels. The adjacent roads are visited, every pleasant day, by ridingparties; and rambling pedestrians explore the neighboring forests and. MTS. AND KIAKSAKGE ■NO. ( ONWAY hills, or fish for trout along the falling brooks. It is the beauty andvariety of its environs that gives North Conway the foremost rankamong the mountain villages, added to the fact that it is at the properfocal distance from Mt. Washington. The village is hardly more than a community of hotels and boarding-houses,— great and small, antique and modern, elaborate and the edge of the terrace-l)luff, near the station of the Boston andMaine (the station of the other road is on the other side of the village,while the junction of the two roads is half a mile northward) stands 217 the Kearsarge,— an immense hostelry, ranking among the greathotels. Another large and older house, from which the White Moun-tains are visible, as they are not from the Kearsarge, is the Intervale,half a mile northwa
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