. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. THE FOUR VALLEYS. Two groups of mountains are included under the general titleof The White Hills,—one, the Mount Washington chain, orthe Wliite Mountains proper,—the other, the Franconia range,of which Mount Lafayette, a thousand feet lower than MountWashington, is the highest summit. We commence by call-ing attention to this simple fact, because many persons, evennow, in spite of the excellent guide-books, go into New Hampshire. 2 THE WHITE HILLS. With confused notions of the topography of the region ^vhich attract
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. THE FOUR VALLEYS. Two groups of mountains are included under the general titleof The White Hills,—one, the Mount Washington chain, orthe Wliite Mountains proper,—the other, the Franconia range,of which Mount Lafayette, a thousand feet lower than MountWashington, is the highest summit. We commence by call-ing attention to this simple fact, because many persons, evennow, in spite of the excellent guide-books, go into New Hampshire. 2 THE WHITE HILLS. With confused notions of the topography of the region ^vhich attractsthem, and leave Avith no map in their minds eye of what they haveseen. We have even seen maps, that were regularly sold in themountain hotels, which represented the Franconia range as a wes-terly continuation of the great White Mountain chain, and whichplaced Montreal a little south of Portland. Once a traveller who wasjust entering the hill country, and who seemed to be eager to find The Notch, asked us if it was situated on the top of MountWashi
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