Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-07-28
Visiting the White Mountains.


?. Go with one or more companions.
Somebody to talk with is Indispensable.
Two eyes cannot see half as much as four,
one soul cannot feel half as much as two.
g BE sure of good weather.
t. Take time enough The hurrying
tourist gets no good. TO him the tower
inc mountain heights are without subliE,i-
tv. and the mighty views Of sky and earth
are nothing.
D. Take money enough. If man
must be forecasting and reckoning up his
expenses every half day, he may as well
remain at home. The goddess Of the
mountains accepts no worship and gives
no blessings if the worship be with much
calculation.
6. DO not foot it, neither take the hur-
rylng stare or cars. There may be poetry
i'll 4 foot tramp, but the poetry will be only
in snatches with long passages Of sober
prose. The dusty cars and the crowded
coach may have convcnience-. but the tour
ISIS best conveyance is with Il stcadv-go-
inc horse with Il carriage to accommodate
the party. 1t is worth much to command
the Mountaineering when ready and
stopping when desirable. And beside,
only this private way of travelling secures
the possibility Of choosing the places of en-
tcrtainmcnt
With these preparations, start from the
South. say from Plymouth, \. H. An
hours drive brings the famous Francuna
Notch mo view. and for four hours longer
the traveller approaches this much visited
mountain pass. The first stopping place
perhaps three miles beyond the last farm
house, is - the FIumc House" Under the
management of J. b. Elliott this house is
g" Il thing of beauty and of Joy to be re
membcrcd. Quiet, good order. cleanliness
and homclikcnc>s mark all the appoint-
ment~ of this Mountain House. Its prices
are only half those of its = Profile = neigh
boz, and lis fare is by all pronounced us
good The two principal points of inter-
ct here are the Pool and the Flumc The
first, with lis Arctic Philosopher ready to
sell ride on hi >cow or sell a ..vicw,"
OF expand his great theory of the earth's
form, is much of Joke and something of
L reality. Yet it pays to visit the Pool The
Il1lf-miIe walk is full of variety and very
InprovlnS-to the appetite. \ mile in an
other direction brings the wonder hunter
TO the Flume, This pays. 1t is gorge,
long, narrow and deep, as though Il thou
sand giants had cleavcd the mountains
with Il mighty blow, and dropped a huge
boulder into the cleft half way down.
With vivid imaginstion this cln be seen
by the . yiew,1 but this work of nature
must be JtH to be well seem Proud and
pl9my man needs to measure himself in
such Il presence as the Flumc
Rested and Toasted, the siyht->cers pas-
on five miles over Il superior road, with the
old Man Mountain rising hundred, of
feet at the left and Mount LAFAYETTE liftinr
much higher on the right. How the thlln
ders have rolled over these SUBMITS and
how the lightnings have smitten tits I'M
parallcled, perpendicular and bare wall on
the left And there i, the Cd Man him.
self, No imagination \ perfect pro-
file. High up on the mountain wall, look
inc out over thousands of square miles
9lecpe>s old sentinel-grand old man,
with face like the Gods. what eer thy
At, VI.
monarch, though brainle>S, yet thy great
look i'll an inspiration. Echo Lake, ne:,r
by, is the charm Of the Franconia noun
tains. Why did nature hide away in this
wild nook to exercise her skill in makinv
such delight? This echo was meant for
human c:u>. but, had its enjoyment cost
nothing, it had been 50 little priced. TO
listen once on Il summer morning, to tbi, |
mclohy III tins wild mountain glen. enrirh-
Is the >torehou>c of memory for a life
time
Thirty miles further and the. base of
Mt. Washington is reached. The most
interesting way>ile object is the Summer
boarding House. 1t is passed. at every
turn OF the road. It puts on all ,lc.sre,s
oil pretcntIouSne>s from the plain farmers
house with two or three guest room, to
The whlc->prcading Fabyan House with |
Inst class hotel prices and accommodations /
Tor hundreds. The White Mountain House
only three quarters of Il mile from the
taoytn, kept by X. ID. Rcnnscyel, furnish |
ms Il table lit for kim. and 1T prices iftv
per cent less than il nrirlbprS. i, II. /
desirable home for thust. who mr., willinr
to pay for substance ami have no money
Tor shadow and show. At the E,lv,n
The tourist turns aside from railroads md
human homes and pushes into the wller
nc>>. In due time he energies at the base
'nd finds the iron horse Ohough 4 new
>p"clc>) even there.
There are two classes ofprople that can
probably take that car ride to the. summit
those who have nerves and those without
nerves. But no man should think of dead
lea'lng his ride. Only three miles. = lj:tl.
e>s than perpendicular; time. three half
lour>; fare up, 500, or 800 for the
'ound trip. Nobody who has made the
rip can wonder that Il woman asked the
CONDUCTOR 4" where should We 90 to if any .
hung should break" Perhaps a difficult i
question. One needs to ride up and down ;
nee to take in tie great achievement of :, +
railway to the clouds" y
Much is said of SURPRISES and sunsets /
N Mt. Washington. The lower world 4
illnesses the sun in his rising and se,tin., t
.lory IN hundred times oftcncr and in far 5
icIer and more gorgeous colorin~, than n
lrsc Tod GERS 629l feet above the sea The +
utlo"k from this summit of New Eprland +
; to be priced for the panorama of noun /
I'M hill and valley. On Mt. WASHINGTON u
t. be seen the best "picture of the n
Ftil : surface " in New England :
Sleeping on Mt. Washington is worth /.
L. price lOH once. tn nm .,vnl.., ,,, ,,,.,..l II