Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-09-11

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mat the ascent OF Mt. Lafayette, $3.50 feet
high, seemed so much like play that after
dinner we were In condition to undertake
another walk on our way down the PENN Sc
wasset valley: while our opening ascent o.
klarsage, two thousand feet less in height
caused rs to puff q good deal and to pause
very freQuedtly to admire the scenery or to
PICK oiueoerries. Now, too, we had gained
the lung power and the feeling OF buoyancy
and exhilaration enabling and inciting us
10 sing or whistle as we walked; aud almost
inevitably on entering upon any stretch OF
we fell into a quick swinging stride TO the
step OF our own music. Another point is
mat with this buoyancy of fesling indrced
oy peoestIian exercise comes the capacity
scenery encountered. And the opportunities.
for improving all points of view are enhanced
nunored fold when taken afOot than when
one is confined 10 q carriage ard the beaten
TRACK On foot one can diverge from the
road at q hundred points TO improve the
range OF prospect; TO say nothing OF the
when one is not limited to the chance chances
from q carriage window.
DOWN THE PEMIGEwAssET.
Starting down the valley from the Profile
house, one sees high up the mountain to his
right The singular fol alton Of rock that at
this distance takes the shape of q mounted
cannon, and gives its name to the mountain.
The Eagle Cliff and Mount Cannon, we soop
came to the point on the road opposite Pro-
nle Lake, from which las indicated by
guide board, and a wooden seat is obtained
the favorite view of
THE GREAT STONE FACE.
This profile is formed by granite Lodges
on the cliffs OF Mount Cannon, 1 200 feet
above the spectator at this point. As out
lined against the sky 1t seems to be com
posed Of q single rock, but is really formed
of three disconnected lodges OF granite 10
different vertical lines, their aggregate
height being about forty feet. The stern
cliffs Of the White Mountains SO abound in
broken lodges, from which travellers, hotel
men and guide book makers have evolved
fanciful resem0lanceS TO the human face,
tnat one comes here prepared TO exercise
powers OF Imagination usually required TO
make out likeness; but the resem ola uce Is
really something startling. AS has peen
strikingly said OF IL: .Oie sees q mou ntain
that breaks into human expression,-a piece
OF soul pture older than the Sphynx,-au in
timation of the human countenance, which
1s the crown OF all beauty, that was pushed
out from the coarse strata of New Englard
thousands OF years before Adam. The ex-
preston is really noble, v it'll q suggestion
partly OF fati que and melancholy. III seems
tO tie waitiDg for some visitor or q message"
1t is said that the granite OF the profile is de-
composing rapidly, aud that Ia all prOba
Dliity the likeness Will be destroye1 In few
years through the action OF frost. An effort
has been made TO avert this disaster by
binding the three separate rocks, forming
respectively the chin, the upper lip aud no SO,
ana the jutting forehead, win iron clamps,
but any protection OF this stud must OF
cOur sc give way like ropes of straw when
any one OF these immense masses OF Imperd-
ing rock Is detached from the parent cliff by
the action OF frost. Tnis remarkable freak
OF nature has the adder human interest OF
being the subject ofone OF Hswthorne's weird
stories.
just under the Profile, and a few yards
from our valley road, Is Profile lake,
beautiful sheet OF water with deep sh adows
on the mountain side, In which shade were
floating as We passed several row ,osts, the
occu pants OF whicn-maiuly young people
from the hotel-were engaged variously In
flirting, fly fishing, and taking In the SUB
lime and beautiful. Passing on down the
charming Notch road wa came presently to
the trou t-houses OF the Profile House, wnere
hundreds Of monstrous trout are to be seen
diSpOrting In the clear water, and SO tame as
TO be ready TO feed almost from ones hand
Most OF these fish were SO corpulent as to
look like mullet, or "suckers," but occasion
ally sharp, clipper built fellow could be
seen sailing around among the fat luooers,
who was OF the lively game sort that afford
are hooked. These cold crystal mountain
streams and lakes are the natural home OF
the brock trout, and they breed here finely.
momentaIily TO enjoy the delicious picture
where the sunlight filtered through the ten
der green foliage OF our shaded path, or
our road on each side with interIacing
branches, making q charming avenue OF
Natures own. And ripping and dancing
that brightest OF mountain streams, the up
per Pemigewasset. All this OF the graceful
and charming was contrasted with the ma
1estic walls OF our mouotain-lined path,
bstned on the one side 10 the golden light
OF the declining sun. and on the other en-
yeloped In purple haze of imperial splen-
dor: The Clawford Notch Is grandly i'm.
fIancOnla Notch is both grand and delight
full. This pass, six miles In length, Is q
succession OF wild and beautiful pictures,
with lot monotonOus rod; aud we were
enjoying II at Its best under all the chang.
ing lights OF bright sunset. We reach ed
the Flume House lstx miles from the Profile
House, in the shade of evening, but were not
too tired to add another mile to Our days
walk by visit to the Pool, where the PENN.
gewasset river falls into basin 100 feet in
cliffs $50 feet high. It is said to look sly
eian, and all that by daylight, and was Ger
tAiply q sOmbre looking hole In the dusk OF
evening. An odd sort of genius haunts the
depths on q rude float Then he talks phil
Csophy TO them and eXpOunds theories or his
own upon the cosmogony Of the world, q I'd
altogether he gives the impression or q
dreamy visionary, too impractical TO make
his way amongst his fellow men in the rude
loetl OF life. But he is no fool. He comes
twelve years, aud in that time has saved
enough from acting as cicerone at the Pool
10 buy two large farms In Minnesota. Toe
Fldme House Is an adjunct to the Profile
House, but Is q smaller and cheaper house
THE FLUME.
We stopped at the Flume House over night;
accommodations very fair, and charges 81
only for supper, lodging and breakfast. In
the morning we visited the great natural
curiosity Of this neighborhoo1, "Tne
Flume," q remarkable fissure In the side OF
Mt. Flume, and which affords q passage for
q limpid little stream called FIume Brook
The Flume Is seven hundred feet long, and
its walls, seventy feet high and from ten to
twenty feet apart, are almost rs perpendicu-
lar and parallel as IL built by hand. Toe
hume itself il curious and interesting, but IL
has graphic feature In q huge oval boulder
suspended between Its walls by q hold 90
slight that the spectator underneath invol-
UNFAIRLY shrtnks away with the idea that
even the jar OF q foot-tread may serve to
detach II. The look do Hn the Flume Is q
pleasing one on account of the graceful,
feathery beauty and delicate green of the
ferns and other forms Of vegetation timing
the wells OF the singular fissure. Below tho
FluTe the waters Of the little stream, which
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