. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . noteven a decent appearance of danger. It is probable that a quarter of amillion passengers have been carried up and down this road since itsorigin, of Avhom not a single one has been injured; nor has an acci-dent happened upon the Rigi, in Switzerland, nor at Mt. Desert, wheresimilar railroads, copied from this one, have been constructed. AVith entirely easy minds, therefore, and in the midst of a merryparty, we ride down to the base, reviewing with en
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . noteven a decent appearance of danger. It is probable that a quarter of amillion passengers have been carried up and down this road since itsorigin, of Avhom not a single one has been injured; nor has an acci-dent happened upon the Rigi, in Switzerland, nor at Mt. Desert, wheresimilar railroads, copied from this one, have been constructed. AVith entirely easy minds, therefore, and in the midst of a merryparty, we ride down to the base, reviewing with entranced eyes, andstoring away in our memories, all the landscape westward and north-ward which we had seen from the top, but noAv looked at fromconstantly altering and novel points of view; and we alight at the endof the too-short journey, filled to the very lips with material for joyfulreflection hereafter. There we take our places in open observation cars on the branchrailway to the base of Alt. Washington, and in half an hour are whirleddown the noisy-going Amonoosuc to Fabyans, where ends this chapterof our tour. 178 CHAPTER It f?ABYANS. A single coal does not burn well. A compaDionless traveller finds thp journeytedious.—Bedage Proverb. ABYAXS is the pivot around which all \yhiteMountain touring must reiolve. Jackson andthe Conwa)S, Mt. Washington, the Glen andGorham, JefTerson and Lancaster, Bethlehem andthe Profile, are about equidistant. It is theRome of the mountains, toward which all roadslead, and it has been a station on the mainavenue of travel through this rugged part ofthe state as long as the passes have been known. The mountains stand back at this point, leaving a vallej^ which maybe called spacious and level compared with the ordinary openingsamong these crowded hills, where the main Amonoosuc, coming fromthe Lake of the Clouds, receives its South branch, draining the rearroofs of the Crawford House. At the junction of these two streamsis the Fabyan
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