Scenic gems of the White Mountains . iew is looking up the Crawford Notch, from the foot of the valley, even as the following picture is from the head of the valley lookingdown. The two together give an idea of the extent of the Notch, but the elevations suffer, as all elevations do that are seen through the lensof the camera. Across this vast bowl are famous mountains; Crawford, with its pointed reddish peak; the Giants Stairs, a succession ofsummits that seen in profile present the appearance of three gigantic steps one above the other ; Mt. Willey, a very noble needle of rock, risingsharply
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . iew is looking up the Crawford Notch, from the foot of the valley, even as the following picture is from the head of the valley lookingdown. The two together give an idea of the extent of the Notch, but the elevations suffer, as all elevations do that are seen through the lensof the camera. Across this vast bowl are famous mountains; Crawford, with its pointed reddish peak; the Giants Stairs, a succession ofsummits that seen in profile present the appearance of three gigantic steps one above the other ; Mt. Willey, a very noble needle of rock, risingsharply from the forest; Mt. Webster with its huge avalanche-scarred sides and cliffs. On the right as we advance up the Notch stand like giantsin array : Mt. Crawford (3,134 feet) and Mt. Webster (4,000 feet) forming one wall of the gorge, with Mt. Willey (4,300 feet) and Mt. Willard(2,570 feet) the opposite sides. The right hand wall of the gorge formed by Mts. Crawford and Webster is a long drawn out series of precipicesawful to LOOKING DOWN CRAWFORD NOTCH FROM THE SUMMIT OF MT. WILLARD. We are now transported by this view to the upper extreme of the Crawford Notch. Mt. Willard is easily conquered by pedestrians and iseven reached by a carriage road from the Crawford House. One may ride to the summit, only 670 feet higher than the hotel, which is 1,900feet above the sea, and look from the edge of its purple cliffs down into the vast concavity of the Notch, which is filled by unbroken forestscurving from either side in graceful lines to the Saco River which flows along the floor of the valley. In the picture, however, the river isentirely bidden by the foliage of its bordering trees. The seam to the right is the path of the Maine Central Railroad which runs along theedge of the bowl upon the shoulder of the Mountains high above the floor of the valley. Far down in the bottom of the valley, where the firstbreak in the forest occurs, appears the white buildings which surround
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