. New England; a human interest geographical reader. The Old Man of the Mountain The White Mountains 267 Formerly there was an enormous suspended boulderin the Flume, so firmly wedged between the cliffs that. A camping outfit it seemed destined to stay there until doomsday. Butin 1883 a violent thunderstorm started a landslide upbeyond the cleft, and all the rubbish came downthrough and carried along the boulder. The mass ofrocks and earth and trees was deposited some distancebelow. Whether the boulder was broken into frag-ments, or whether it lies buried entire in the debris,no one knows. The
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. The Old Man of the Mountain The White Mountains 267 Formerly there was an enormous suspended boulderin the Flume, so firmly wedged between the cliffs that. A camping outfit it seemed destined to stay there until doomsday. Butin 1883 a violent thunderstorm started a landslide upbeyond the cleft, and all the rubbish came downthrough and carried along the boulder. The mass ofrocks and earth and trees was deposited some distancebelow. Whether the boulder was broken into frag-ments, or whether it lies buried entire in the debris,no one knows. There are lookout places on the mountains wheremen are watching for fires all the summer men have telescopes, and their lookouts are con-nected with the villages by telephone. As soon as they 268 New England see the smoke of a fire starting they telephone down,and men are soon on the spot putting it out. Soon after the beginning of the present centuryOld Man Thompson, a famous White Mountainhunter, died at the age of ninety-five. He came to themountains in his youth when some of the people were
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