. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . nds are carried away each year;but the next only sees them more abundant. A well-kno\\Ti settlement and hotel exists at Errol Dam, connectedby an ancient road with Colebrook, N. H., on the Connecticut river,twenty-one miles distant. This road passes through Dixville notch(half way) and forms one of the regular avenues of approach to thelake region, Colebrook being only thirteen miles by a delightful stage-road from North Stratford station on the Grand T
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . nds are carried away each year;but the next only sees them more abundant. A well-kno\\Ti settlement and hotel exists at Errol Dam, connectedby an ancient road with Colebrook, N. H., on the Connecticut river,twenty-one miles distant. This road passes through Dixville notch(half way) and forms one of the regular avenues of approach to thelake region, Colebrook being only thirteen miles by a delightful stage-road from North Stratford station on the Grand Trunk Railway. 133 Dixville notch is a fine gorge between a crumbling conical cragand a scarped precipice, a pass easily defensible, except at the seasonwhen raspberries would distract sentinels. The cleft traversed bythe road opens like a Titanic gateway to some region of mysteriousdesolation. The pass, to quote Eastmans description, is muchnarrower than either of the more famous ones in the White Moun-tains, and through its whole extent of a mile and quarter, has morethe cliaracter of a notch. ... So narrow is the ravine (it can hardly. IN DIXVILLE NOTCH. be called a pass) that a rough and precarious roadway for a singlecarriage could only be constructed. ... No description can impart anadequate conception of the mournful grandeur of the decaying cliffsof mica-slate which overhang the way. They shoot up in most sin-gular and fantastic shapes and vary in height from 400 to 800 feet. . but are rapidly crumbling away. Some have decayed to half theiroriginal height; and the side-walls of the notch are strewn withdebris which the ice and storms have pried and gnawed from the 134 decrepit cliffs. So says Eastman. The Rev. William C. Prime pro-nounces it one of the wildest and most imposing pieces of rock sceneryon the Atlantic side of the country; and the drive from Colebrookthrough the notch to Bethel, the tinest lie luis ever found in America. It is possible to clamber up to Talil
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