. Summer saunterings ... : a guide to pleasant places among the mountains, lakes and valleys of New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada . pleasant situation and itshigh standard. The building has a frontage of 220 feet, is four storiesin height, and its rooms are especially spacious, airy and halls are commodious; and the dining room, from necessity, is alarge apartment. Every railway traveller, as well as the summervisitor who tarries long within its walls, feels a personal interest inthis popular hotel, for the reason that it is the chief dining station onthe route going either nor
. Summer saunterings ... : a guide to pleasant places among the mountains, lakes and valleys of New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada . pleasant situation and itshigh standard. The building has a frontage of 220 feet, is four storiesin height, and its rooms are especially spacious, airy and halls are commodious; and the dining room, from necessity, is alarge apartment. Every railway traveller, as well as the summervisitor who tarries long within its walls, feels a personal interest inthis popular hotel, for the reason that it is the chief dining station onthe route going either north or south. THE PEMIGEWASSET VALLEY AND ERANCONIA NOTCH. The opening of the Pemigewasset Vallej Branch, in 1883, marked anew era in White Mountain travel. Hitherto the traveller, upon hisarrival at Plymouth, had the choice presented him, if lie intended go-ing to the Profile House, of pursuing his farther journey by stage (adistance of thirty miles), or of continuing by rail via Bethlehem Junc-tion, and thus entering th-at famous retreat from the north. The onlymeans of reaching any of the numerous hotels and boarding houses. Old Man of the Mountains. 78 along the beautiful valley were furnished by stage. These limitedfacilities prevented many persons from taking one of the most delight-ful journeys afforded in the whole round of mountain travel. ThePemigewasset Valley has always been a favorite haunt of artists andthe lovers of Nature. The approach to the high mountains of the Fran-conia Range furnishes a constant succession of beautiful many places the valley broadens into pleasant intervales, where theriver winds amid luxuriant meadows, while the dark hills rise on eitherside. In the blue distance, up the long vista, are seen the bold out-lines of Mounts Lafayette, Lincoln, Liberty, Flume, Pemigewasset,Cannon, and Kinsman. A turn in the road brings before one a new andcharming picture, the mountain forms about the Franconia Notch be-coming more and more distin
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