The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-09

levelest a. II undoubtedly b the peasantes Of any
road Of that length any where Ia New Hampshire II
not IN New England. The mountains shut down
upon the river 50 that the settlers had to stick to the
stream. They could not leave it far without coming
Upon surface little too perpendicular for
even the travelling and inhabting ambition
OF the northern regions of the Granite State. The
road courses along the diminishing river and up the
narrowing intervales, and between the converging
and threatening uplands that soon degenerate into
mountains, which though nameless in a land whose
staple commodity j. hills, would still rank respecta
bly among the chief SUBMITS Of more southern New
England. Beautiful strips Of ntervale continue all
the way up through Campton. Thornton, and Wood
stock, the picturesque and appropriate name Of what
was once Feeling and at the head OF :" plough
navigation" Woodstock Is the last of the towns,
though Lincoln has ventured up above her. into the
very notch, and has some families besides her town
officers. y The scenery through Thornton
strongly resembles the rural districts OF Scotland
1t is 80 like it, that many years ago considerable
number OF Scottish immigrants, their way perhaps
to Barnet and Ryegate-settlemeut Of their country
men in Verm0nt-weTe induced to stop and settle
here. The NcLellans. the Robertsons the McDer-
maids and the Men ortons. We remember their
steal accent and foreign look in our boyish days.
They have passed away now, and their places are
supplied bv their half Yankee descendants
About dozen miles Of excellent road carried us
to the immediate peishborhood of the great peaks.
We stopped at Garnseys tavern to refresh ourselves,
and to go ont east to see the celebrated Flame about
a mile into tie wood The way was exceedingly 70.
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est and heaviest growth OF New Hampshire woods
We passed brches US big as most pines. About
quarter of 3 mile from the high road, the path
pitched down two or three hundred feet very pre-
ciphOusly AT the bottom rOared mouat ain stream
among the rocks clear crystal and as cold as
well Our way lay across it, OF the trunk OF fallen
spruce that required some steadiness to pass We
crossed this stream three or four times more and
To the cascade. The bed of the stream il here
bare, smooth rock, ascending some Ten or fifteen
degrees. 1t is about twice al wide rs the stream
which gdes down over it, barely covering the NOISY
rock. 1t continues np we should think, several bun
bred feet. AT the foot Of it the water dashes iuto
basin. We walked up, dry shod, the whole length
of the cascade to where the rocks began towall up
on each side, and from the entrance way to the
fume. This is q tremendous chasm, cut directly up
into the bosom Of the mountain, the walls rising on
each side, in the highest parts sixty or hundred
feet if they had been chselled III the solid rock
We took no dimensions, but should say the great
sluice way fifteen or twenty feet wide, and as
many rods long; it may be longer. The stream was
along the bottom OF it, among enormous rocks that
have got there, we could not conjecture how. The
fume bends about at the upper end, and we could
from which the rocks could have been rent in
the stupendous walls of the chasm which
rose up smooth to the top. and we thought
they must have been tumbed along down
the great trough by the headong water in time
Of food We were struck with awe at entering it, as
we gazed up the giant trench, to spy massey rock,
weighing, We should think, hundred tons, hanging
in the very jaws OF the chasm, suspended in the air.
1t looks at first sight if about to fall. 1t must
have dropped into the rift, imagined, when it was
rent asunder by the volcano, earthquake. other
mountain three that opened it; or, mayhap, some
Titan wantoDly hurled it down there from the peak
OF the great Haystack. wild and picturesque
looking bridge stretches the chasm q little way
from the pendant rock 1t is made by the trunk Of
a mighty tree fallen across there by some hurricane
that swept the mouptan side. We all sang
"Old Hundred at the foot OF the cascade, made our
way back to Gurnseys, and rode on for the notch"
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In another letter. may give you Mr.. Rogers de-
scrption Of the basin. profile, &c, and have some
thing to ray about the White Mountains proper from
which / date this letter. The summer travel has
fairly began. Fabyans Hotel, (the Mount Wash
ineton.) four miles west of here was destroyed by
ere last winter. There being legal controversy
pending in relation to the property the site will not
be improved with new hotel until next summer In
the mean time there good accommodations for 200
here at the Notch, (Crawford House,'D 100 more ut
the White Mountains House, just beyond the late
Fabyan stand, and for about 100 more at the Wiley
House, two miles, and the Mount Crawford House,
(old Abel Crawford's) six miles down the Notch.
towards Conway. The latter place is thirty miles
from here, down the Saco Valley, and a most de-
iehtful ride. Mr. Fabyan keeps q splendid hotel
there. 1t WIS erected few years since, at an ex
rense Of some $25 ,0U0, and Is cuicd She Conway
House." PENNACoOK.