. Summer saunterings ... : a guide to pleasant places among the mountains, lakes and valleys of New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada . , or 1,876 feet higherthan the hotel; while Eagle ClifTtowers on the east side of the glen,1,472 feet above the Profile House, or 3,44G feet above the sea. Thesummit of Mount Lafayette, 5,259 feet high, is less than four milesaway, by a winding bridle-path, although hidden by the nearer tlioughlesser heights. A little dis-tance north of the hotel is the beautifulEcho Lake ; and still nearer, in the opposite direction, is Profile Lake,equally an object of beauty; w
. Summer saunterings ... : a guide to pleasant places among the mountains, lakes and valleys of New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada . , or 1,876 feet higherthan the hotel; while Eagle ClifTtowers on the east side of the glen,1,472 feet above the Profile House, or 3,44G feet above the sea. Thesummit of Mount Lafayette, 5,259 feet high, is less than four milesaway, by a winding bridle-path, although hidden by the nearer tlioughlesser heights. A little dis-tance north of the hotel is the beautifulEcho Lake ; and still nearer, in the opposite direction, is Profile Lake,equally an object of beauty; while across its fair expanse, and some-times crowned by a wreath of clouds, is the wonderful Profile, the mostremarkable object of its kind in the world, the naturalness of whichat once impresses every beholder, and the picture of which will everafter remain with great distinctness in the mind. As soon as the grimmajesty of the profile is seen, one at once understands the impressio:i made on the poet,— * * * Like a sun-rlmmed cloud, The great Notch mountaina shone,Watched over by the solemn-browedAnd awful face of stone. 82. 8:^ The face is formed by a series of three letlges, oue of wliicli formsthe foreliead, anotlier tlie nose and upper lip, and tlie third the viewed from the front, all resemblance to a human face Is face was discovered, in 1805, by two workmen on the Notch Flume is situated between five and six miles below the ProfileHouse, and near the Flume House. It is a great Assure in the rocks,about seven hundred feet long, and from sixty to seventy feet in walls are perpendicular; and in the narrowest part a huge bowlder,which at some remote period crashed down the mountain side, formerlj^hung suspended. On the 20th of Juno, 1883, a great storm occurredin the mountains, accompanied ])y several terrific land-slides, one ofwhich, starting nearly at the top of Mount Libert3% gathered forcewhen it reached the Flume stream, and swe
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