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Title: Here and there in New England and Canada
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Sweetser, Moses Foster, 1848-1897
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Publisher: Boston, Passenger Dept., Boston (and) Maine Railroad
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e and a half farther, steep up the main peak, above theline of foliage, and over the bare and storm-worn ledges. From the lonelyapex of the mountain, you look down into the vast and untrodden ravinesbelow, and along the narrow crest-lines reaching away on either side, andover the bright mosaics of the Connecticut and Merrimac Valleys, and out tothe Presidential brotherhood, the Twins, Kiarsarge at North Conway, MountPleasant by Sebago Lake, Carrigain and Chocorua, the blue mountain-wallsof the Lake Country, the Merrimac Kearsarge, far-away Monadnock, white-peaked Cardigan, the hotel on Moosilauke, a hundred miles of the GreenMountains, and the Canadian peaks around Lake Memphremagog. Betweenthese conspicuous points, hundreds of well-known heights start into viewwith white villages, shining lakes, and the silvery curves of far winding rivers. The guide-books will tell of many another gallant excursion: of littleBald Mountain, with its lovely views; of the stone cannon seen from near 66
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THE FLU.ME. 67 the hotel, up towards the crest of Cannon Mountain; of Walkers Falls, andEagle Cliff, and Boyce Rock, and other points of resort in and about thismarvellous glen. And the college-students who serve as table-waiters in thedining-room are competent to correct a false quantity in your quotationsfrom Horace or Homer, or discuss recent phases of esoteric Buddhism, orreview the influence of Oxford on modern Anglican thought. The Profile House stands near the northern end of the Franconia Notch,which stretches away for five or six miles southward, with impressive moun-tain-ranges on either side, dipping down to the road in curtains of luxuriantforest. Two-thirds of the way down, the stage, bowling merrily away towardthe terminus of the Pem-igewasset Railway atNorth Woodstock,passes the great granitebowl of the Basin,through which the pel-lucid waters of the■Pemigewasset swirl andrush, cold, clear, andrefreshing. Here theCascade Brook flowsdown from the highhills, over a succ

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