. Summer saunterings ... : a guide to pleasant places among the mountains, lakes and valleys of New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada . odstock and the Profile House, the traveller drinksin the pure mountain air, and feasts his eyes upon new visions ofbeauty. Soon after leaving North Woodstock, the road crosses Har-vard Brook, upon which the Georgiana Falls are situatetl, between oneand two miles distant. The valley has now narrowed; and the darkmountain ridges crowd upon either side, with here and there a littleintervale of field and meadow, or forest tract. Little Coolidge, BigCoolidge, and tlie
. Summer saunterings ... : a guide to pleasant places among the mountains, lakes and valleys of New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada . odstock and the Profile House, the traveller drinksin the pure mountain air, and feasts his eyes upon new visions ofbeauty. Soon after leaving North Woodstock, the road crosses Har-vard Brook, upon which the Georgiana Falls are situatetl, between oneand two miles distant. The valley has now narrowed; and the darkmountain ridges crowd upon either side, with here and there a littleintervale of field and meadow, or forest tract. Little Coolidge, BigCoolidge, and tlie Potash Mountains rise upon the right; Pemigewas-set Mountain on the left; while in front are the bold forms of MountsFlume, Liberty, Lincoln and Lafayette. Only one or two houses areseen, until the Flume House, about half way on the road to the ProfileHouse, is reached. This is a large and pleasant hotel, which has re-cently been much enlarged. It is in proximity to those great naturalwonders, the Flume and the Pool, which, however, can best be visited,when time can be given, in a special excursion from the Profile House. 80. unless tlie Aisitor inteiu to make the Flume House his stopping place. Both hotels are under the same management. The Flume upon Flume Brook, a mile ( tant; and the Pool, upon Pemigewasset Kivcr, half a mile distant by a pleasant patlnvay through the forest. Pemigewasset Mountain, a high spur of Mount Kinsman, rises in rear of the Flume House. The view from the summit towards the superior peaks on the opposite side of the valley, and of the valley southward, is very fine. The peaks on the east side of the valley form the profile called Washington lying in State; Mount Liberty seiwing as the face, with its highest ridge as the nose. From the Flume House to the little plateau on whicli the Profile House is situated, there is an 81 ascent of 543 feet; and the road winds throuifli tlie forewt, with fre-quent glimpses of tlie liigli beetling clitts on either s
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