. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . wn sloping down to the station and to a tinylake, in the middle of which a fountain-pipe is sending up a strongjet, blown to one side like a gej^ser. Out of the lower end of thislakelet trickles a tliread of water which makes its escape a hundredrods below, through a black crevice in the rocks where protrudingledges of the opposite hills all but join. Tliat stream is the head ofthe Saco, and that narrow portal is the Gate of the Notch. The moun-tain beh
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . wn sloping down to the station and to a tinylake, in the middle of which a fountain-pipe is sending up a strongjet, blown to one side like a gej^ser. Out of the lower end of thislakelet trickles a tliread of water which makes its escape a hundredrods below, through a black crevice in the rocks where protrudingledges of the opposite hills all but join. Tliat stream is the head ofthe Saco, and that narrow portal is the Gate of the Notch. The moun-tain behind us is Tom,— that in front Clinton; and the little avenuecut through tlie trees yonder is the 1)eginning of the Crawford bridle-path to Mount Washington. We are now in the midst of a littleplateau, about two tliousand feet above the sea. It is thehighest point of the valley, and tlie water flows from it in both 199 directions, the spring near the house discharging its contents downthrough the notch into the Saco, and that at the stables emptymgitself into a tributary of the Amonoosuc, and reaching tlie sea throughthe Connecticut. 1. A GRAY DAY IN CRAWFORD NOTCH. Though well-known to the Indians, used by them in war raids,and heard of by the whites in the days of the old French-and-Indiantroubles, it was not until 1771 that this pass (which is the Notch ^mrexcellence) of the White Mountains, may be said to have been made 200 kuowu to people generally. In that year, Thomas Nash, a hunter, saw,from the top of Cherry mountain this deep cleft in the mountains, and,by way of exploration, passed down the Saco river through its gorge,going on to rortsniouth, where he told Governor AVcntworth of hishappy discovery. Wishing to test the value of the pass as a route ofcommerce, NYentworth requested him to Ining a horse through it fromLancaster, ottering as a reward in case of success the tract now calledNash and Sawyers Location, extending from the Gate of the Notchto a point beyond t
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