Scenic gems of the White Mountains . are collectedin a natural bowl high up near the summit of the giant peak, at an altitude of 5,053 feet, are wierd and most interesting, for one doesnot expect to find water remaining passive at such an altitude. Only the overflow, however, escapes to form the Ammonoosuc , hermit lakes they are, secluded and not often visited by the casual tourist to the summit who journeys by rail from base to crown;yet from the signal station on the summit, where one of the best all-round views may be obtained, one may look down upon the Lakes ofthe Clouds in a
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . are collectedin a natural bowl high up near the summit of the giant peak, at an altitude of 5,053 feet, are wierd and most interesting, for one doesnot expect to find water remaining passive at such an altitude. Only the overflow, however, escapes to form the Ammonoosuc , hermit lakes they are, secluded and not often visited by the casual tourist to the summit who journeys by rail from base to crown;yet from the signal station on the summit, where one of the best all-round views may be obtained, one may look down upon the Lakes ofthe Clouds in all their hidden solemnity. These are lakes in which no foliage is ever mirrored, which no water-fowl ever only by rock fragments, the result of the labors of frost and intense cold, which for ages have rough-hewn the surface of thesegranite hills, they are the full opposite of that beautiful form of water, which in the valleys below we term a lake. They are by far thehighest natural reservoirs of water in New PRESIDENTIAL RANGE—FROM MT. WASHINGTON. The view-line from Mt. Washington has a circumference of nearly one thousand miles, embracing points in five states, and in the Dominionof Canada. Looking down across the lower peaks of the Presidential Range, toward the Crawford Notch, the attendant peaks on Washingtonstand like giants in array, guarding the approach to the premier of the range. Mt. Monroe, 5,384 feet in altitude; Mt. Franklin 4,904 feet; (in Maine) 2,oiS feet; Mt. Webster, 4,000 feet, the latter forming the giant wall of the Crawiord Notch, upon the right hand side of thevalley as one approaches the Crawford House. There are higher peaks, many of them, in the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountains of theCarolinas, but none have enjoyed, or deserve so wide a popularity, are so beautiful in outline or coloring, or are so accessible to all, as thosemonarchs of New England cloud-land.
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