. Here and there in New England and Canada . r the sleejjing river and its greenmeadows. There are two more excursions by road from Gorham which reveal sur-prisingly fine mountain prospects. One of these leads down the river to 39 Shelburne, a thinly-settled town of which five-sixths is covered bv almostinaccessible peaks and ridges,— Baldcap, Ingalls, and Moriah,— while theremaining portion occupies the rich intervales along the Androscoggin, andcontains several summer boarding-houses and villas. Here also are theDryad Falls, the Dripping Walls, Dream Lake, and other points of interest,buried
. Here and there in New England and Canada . r the sleejjing river and its greenmeadows. There are two more excursions by road from Gorham which reveal sur-prisingly fine mountain prospects. One of these leads down the river to 39 Shelburne, a thinly-settled town of which five-sixths is covered bv almostinaccessible peaks and ridges,— Baldcap, Ingalls, and Moriah,— while theremaining portion occupies the rich intervales along the Androscoggin, andcontains several summer boarding-houses and villas. Here also are theDryad Falls, the Dripping Walls, Dream Lake, and other points of interest,buried in the quiet forests along the mountain-slopes. The view from theLead-Mine Bridge has been celebrated for its wonderful beauty for morethan half a century, and includes the bright river and its fairy-like islands,and the colossal pyramids of Mount Madison and Mount Adams, fitly framedby nearer ranges. Five miles or so from Gorham, in an opposite direction, is RandolphHill, with its grand and desolate view of Madison and Adams and their. ENTRANXE TO CARTER NOTCH FROM GORHAM. deep dark ravines. Here are the Ravine and Mount-Crescent Houses, withromantic and interesting surroundings, and handy to the Appalachian-Clubpath up the northern peaks and into the tremendous depths of KingsRavine. A few miles farther on, by this same road, are the hotels of Jeffer-son Hill. Gorham may be reached more directly by the Grand Trunk Railway,either from Portland, where it connects with the Boston & Maine line fromBoston, or from Groveton Junction, in the upper Connecticut Valley, whereit meets the trains of the Boston & Lowell Railroad, from Plymouth, Little-ton, and Lancaster. 4° CHAPTER VI. THE CRAWFORD NOTCH. Upper Bartlett.—A Little Albany Railroad.— ^Iount Carrigain.— Bemis Station.— The Run up the Notch by Railway. TOO long have we digressed up about Jackson and the Glen House andGorham, and we return to our train at Glen Station ready to make thefamaus journey through Crawfo
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