. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. , a distance of thirty-six miles to the Glen, and of forty-four toGorham. The question of the comparative merits of the two routes, as toscenery, is often raised. On the regular stage-road from the Glen tothe Notch, after leaving the Glen House, there is no full view of thegreat White Mountain range. There is a glimpse of Mount Wash-ington about three miles from the Glen, near the entrance to theCrystal Cascade, and a very noble view of it on looking back afterpassing Cooks, on the edge of Jackson. But after that, not onlyWashington, but
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. , a distance of thirty-six miles to the Glen, and of forty-four toGorham. The question of the comparative merits of the two routes, as toscenery, is often raised. On the regular stage-road from the Glen tothe Notch, after leaving the Glen House, there is no full view of thegreat White Mountain range. There is a glimpse of Mount Wash-ington about three miles from the Glen, near the entrance to theCrystal Cascade, and a very noble view of it on looking back afterpassing Cooks, on the edge of Jackson. But after that, not onlyWashington, but the range, is hidden by lower hills during the whole THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY. 381 distance. These hills are very lovely, and the drive is thoroughlydelightful, but it does not make one acquainted, as the Cherry Moun-tain route does, with the whole of the Mount Washington certainly if a person has once travelled the Jackson and Bar^lett road, he should by all means, on the second visit, try the northerly circuit to the Notch through By this Cherry Mountain route, after the first mile from the Al-pme House in Gorham, we are in company with the White Mountainspropel for twenty-five miles. We take them up into fellowship grad-ually. The range is in the shape of the body of a figure five, andwe go around the bulge of it, formed by the curve in which the fivelargest mountains are set. First Madison and Adams come into 382 THE WHITE view, and we drive directly by their base and under their summits inpassing over Randolph Hill.—This view we have already describedm the chapter on the Androscoggin Valley.—Next, after passing thegreat ravine in Mount Adams,—of which we gave a drawing in thelast chapter,—Mount Jefferson comes into view. Here the drivershould rein up to allow something more than hasty glances at thethree majestic forms that tower over the path, and especially to letpassengers enjoy the castellated ridge of Mount Jefferson, whoserocks ris
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