. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . gradually close about us, and we findourselves between shaggy walls of forested and rocky heights where(aml)ridge river is a mere l)rook, and the road crosses and re-crosses its wrigglings upon bridges of rattling logs. Sometimes there. A GLIMPSE OF rSADDLEBACK. is scarcel}^ room for the wheels to slip between masses ofrock supporting the leafy mountain-sides, and the little stream is anincessant cascade. Then we find a tiny torrent rushing the otherway
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . gradually close about us, and we findourselves between shaggy walls of forested and rocky heights where(aml)ridge river is a mere l)rook, and the road crosses and re-crosses its wrigglings upon bridges of rattling logs. Sometimes there. A GLIMPSE OF rSADDLEBACK. is scarcel}^ room for the wheels to slip between masses ofrock supporting the leafy mountain-sides, and the little stream is anincessant cascade. Then we find a tiny torrent rushing the otherway which the chiver tells us is Bear river, and by-and-by get outinto the sunlight and can look ofl upon the world once more. Such is the Grafton notch, and we heard of several curiosities ofscenery in its neighborhood, such as the Screw-auger falls, .whereBear river twists through a spiral channel in a series of sunken cas-cades ; the Jail, a semi-circular abyss worn by some former vagary ofthe stream, and the Devils Horseshoe, — an impression in the rocksof a cataract-bank, singularly true to the size and shape suggested, lU — and finally the profound chasm, or sink-hole into which legend saysa wounded moose once plunged. At the bottom flows a large andnoisy stream, which, as if the gloom of the lofty w^alls which hem itin, and the sombre stillness of the surroundi
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