The New York herald., 1870-07-24
PROFILE HOUSE, FRANcoNIA NOTCH,
Now Hamnshire JulV 90 1877

on Tue piuin is COOi enough cdu tell your ono"clS
every day green as emerald all about-delicious
Now, don't seop and think ana scold, and then say
"Shoo, Fy; you VIII have time enough for that when
you get here. Don't stop lxn either; just put on
your gray flannel suit; bring with You CLOTH
lined rubber cape; this answers up here for overcoat
umbrella, cushion, lap-robe ana everything else.
Get yourself cheyalier's field glass, good pocket
,nkstand and paper and you are oil right for start
CHEAP OUTFIT, IS 1T Nora
The Francona Mountains, where i now write
FROM are situated in the western part OF the state.
The whole range covers an area OF about forty
square miles, aud the scenery around Is OF the
grandcst and most romantic character that can be
Imagined affording subjects for study, wonder ana
admiration to all classes OF minds, and presenting
every variety of feature from the soft and peaceful
70 the widest and most savagely sterile. ..
or the
FRANcoYIA HILLS
much might be said. The points and objects Of in
terest are Mount Lafayette, $500 feet; Cannon
Mount, 1000 fest; Profile Rock, or the Old Man of
the Mountain, having visage eighty feet long. He
Is quite the style OF man. People usually go
and have a pleasant chat with him morning and
evening. 1 asked why he looked SO hard and sad.
He told me that 35, 900 years had marked the
burrows on his face; that once the whole mountains
beneath the surface OF the ocean at a very re-
mote geological PERIOD that he emerged slowly
from the sea and was again submerged at al COM
paratlvely modern period. and If could only come
up where he was he would convince me by showing
me minerals and little shells, that were natives OF the
ocean, thai were living with him. He told me. too,
that the rc-emergence OF the country was slow and
gradual, but that must not be too inqusitive for
all these things belonged to those "deep things"
OF the Creator whose ways are infinitely above our
comprehension. found him u man
HARD TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION ON.
He has not any nobuity Of features; he looks
always in bad hunor One did so want to ask him
a few questions in regard to female suffrage, but
dared TO; yet nc certainly belongs to the stone
family; but whether be advocates Lucy's tleoryI
am unable TO say
Far below this old mans face is the enchanting
~ PROFILE LAKE, tss
resembling high oval toilet glass; enclosed In
verdant frame Of foliage. there the old man sits
low nls chin. Another head that see is that OF
chief, with helmet; then another. that OF woman,
soft beauty Of the mouth and chm. Y5n catch
elimpses OF many, and could trace, them out you
couid remain longer with tne giants
There are some
here selling baskets-beautiful Daskets-aner than
have ever been seen among the Niagara, Sioux,
Wyand0ts or many others that sell these curiously
wrought works. They have their camps on the bank
whites came to the mountains the indians used to
worship these falls and otfer sacrifices to them as
diy1nities.
LEGENDS CONCERNING THEM. Il
give you but one. as told TO me- This indian be-
1eluge, and every hulnan being but one ''cef' and
his "squaw" we're drowned These TWO found
and througn thelf climbing You aud are mere TO-
day. good many can now for tnc first time ac-
count fgr tner DARK s. compexi9n aea,,n ,e ror, vim
remarkable echo near It, they fire a cannon for
yon to hear the echo land you pay for IT,
This Is q narrow ciasm beGwecn the lofty granite
walls through which stream pours IN almost
direct line upward OF 500 feet when 1t falls IN q
cascade from height of 600 feet.
Along the 'front.' Of one Of these rock walls sort
branches which enable Visitors to climb without
the least difficulty by steadying themselves with
their hands against The wal. AT the end OF this
known in mountaineer terms as the Boulder" 1t
has fallen into the cllasm and is iixcd, so that 1t
saw looking alof, the stream hurl itself from the
left hand into the mountain chasm IN steady
stream, clear as cystaL Whence camest thou, beau
''Men VIII come and men viii 60, but roll on
orever-ever-eser," and the sun shines brightly
upon It, and the beautiful soft green beeches kiss Its
waves.
THE BAsrs, THE POOL AND THE CASCADE
are al objects OF interest to strangers The Pool is
natural well 1870 feet deep. The water L., at the
bottom, forty feet in depth.
The notch where the Profile House now stands is
formed by the mountain named Lafayette, and Is
whore the Lafayette House once stood. 1t has been
moved little north OF this, and Is occupied as
laundry for the hotel, and sleeping rooms for the
servants
Tho Lafayette House was the home of Frederlka
Bremen while her. From the Basin n0WS several
beautiful cascades.
TIE WHITE MOUNTAINS
belong properly to the central group from fourteen
TO twenty miles In extent. They are named respec-
lively after Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Adams
and Lafayette, ana many other republican, heroes,
moa1sstns o = % Washington, eaae Feet; Adams
they may wei be called the aswitzerland' Of Ame-
rica.n
do not agree with everybody in regard 70 the he
me the view is confused. The whole dis
trict is very wild, and there IS scarcely
o dwelling 10 be seen excepting the hotels.
Every lazy talks OF Mount washington. 1t s mas
awe and pyramidal, but without an apex Inc
summit 10 q perfect plateau. 1t appears at dis
tance like volcano; but unlike q volcano, 1t has a
spring Of fresh water at its top Mount Washington
does not receive people as ms namesaRe weaa ns 9sye
Ors very c0Olly, and has wrapped himself up IN
gray, misty mantle, and even threw It about u.s.
the mountains we find the Notch 1t WAS here that
the Wiley fs0nfy was destroyed by landslide In
1925. Hav tiprne has taken this tragical incident
as the subjoctof one Of his household tales-"The
Ambitious Gueytn
How DO you GET UP?
BY railroad, Of course what else nowadays9
The engine and car are kept on the track by rollers
firmly Juggling tho under side Of the central rail
ano more tnah fSice Wtsnyu .suo o, % auane sune
1ady's central rail ,Dr that had roller. the ascent
Is made at the ratG OF slow walk; coming down
the speed is but little accelerated. Danger 70 pre-
vented not only by common friction brakes but by
atmospheric brakes, by winch compressed air
regulates or stops theiniotion at pleasure.
''Sow hut sure,n is the motto, yet we felt as we
went mp, pn, up something within us go pitpat
faster than El G cars did.
Pulpit Rocl, Is anothox place that every one
visits. The resemblance OF the pulpit must
nave been Id the inauguration OF him who
who named it,:thOugh some parts may have served
for the purposeof pulpit In the earay times OF the
Puritan5.
the DEVILS Den IS mysterious locking cavern
and one may expeat any mome0t TO see his Satanic
Majesty make ms ap pearance
There are nuYnefO US other places, but IL would
take too much time ,and space To speak OF them.
Iuckerp,nn,s Rayine rs fearful ana savage cooking
pace. Il is filed win snow at all seasons Of the
year.
..@wEO. ARE HARE EVERYBODY.
The hotels are nlled with noisy, unqtiet people,
who DO not seem to understand any mode
OF enjoyment but In screaming, laughing, tax