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Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a. Inthe Glen, in the coaching days, the old Glen HouseAvas the headquarters at the foot of the road downMount Washington, but it v/as burnt in 1894, andhas not been rebuilt. To the eastward, boundingthe Glen, rise the ^VWd Cat Ridge and the impressiveCarter Dome, which would be a grand mountainelsewhere, but here is dwarfed by the overshadow-ing Presidential range on the western side. Fromthe Pinkham Notch the little Ellis River goes south-ward, and below the outlet of Tuckermans Ravineis the beautiful Crystal Cascade, where it pours downeighty feet over successive step-like terraces. An-other lovely cataract it makes is the Glen Ellis Fall,which is considered the finest in the W^hite Moun-tains, on the slope of the Wild Cat Ridge. Thestream slides down an inclined plane of twenty feetover ledges, and then falls seventy feet through adeep groove, twisted by bulges in the rocks andmaking almost a complete turn. Thus sliding, foam- %oci .1Bri5oe over tbe Milt) dat, nearJackson, 1R. 1b.
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THE (JLKN AND NOKTII LONWAY. 21 o lug and ialliiiir, the stream leaps nearly a hundredIeet into a dark ^-reen jiool beneath. The (ilcubroadens as it progresses southward, and soon be-comes a widened intervale, having many liouses forsummer boarders. Here is tlie pleasant village ot Jaekson in a broadbasin, surrounded by low mountains, making splendidviews in all directions. There arc the Tin, Iron,Thorn and Moat Mountains, with others, the inter-vale being almost covered with hotels, boarding-houses, and the accessories of a popular sununcr re-sort, and having pretty cottages jterchcd on theliill-slopcs all about. This pleasant resting-place wasoriginally called New )\Iadbury, but at the oj)eningof the nineteenth century it was named in honor ofPresident John Adams. It continued contentedly asAdams until his son John (^>uin(v became President,and in 1828, when politics ran high and John QuincyAdams was again a candidate, it hajipenod that allthe votes in the town of Adams but one w

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