The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-30
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
Peculiar Grandeur of the Twin
Groups of Twenty Peaks.

Peculiar Grandeur of the Twin
Groups of Twenty Peaks.
The White Mountains of New Hamp-
shire are the highest elevations in the
United States east of the Mississippi,
the Black mountains of North Carroll
ma alone excepted These mountains
the level of the sea. There are twenty
peaks, which cluster in two groups,
THE eastern one being known as the
! White Mountains, the western as the
Franconia group. The principal sum-
mits of the eastern group are Mounts
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madi
son, Monroe, Webster, Clinton, Pleas
| ington rises to. a height of 6,285 feet
above the sea-.
The nomenclature of the White
| Mountain region reads strangely to
those not native to or familiar with it.
There is the Androscoggin and Pemig-
ewassett valleys, Lake Winnipisogee,
| the Ossipee Hills and Chocoma Peak,
but Mount Kearsarge has been made
glorious by the achievements of the
noble old ship now stranded on Ron
cador Reef.
| The beauty, diversity and grandeur
| of the White Mountain scenery is such
| that few other ranges are SO well
known to the summer tourist. The
| Conway Meadows are a perfect dream
distant mountains forming an admira-
| bic background to the picture. The
view of Mount Washington from the
Conway road is rugged and thrilling
one, for you seem to be actually stand
! ing under the mountain. Then there
! is the Elephants Head, at the gate of
| Crawford Notch; the Wiley Slide and
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ter scene is extremely wild in outline,
and forbidding, even in summer.
Mount Kearsarge, at the northern end
| of the Rattlesnake range, rises in an
almost perfect cone from the main
ridge. Then there is Mote Mountain,
with Echo Lake at its foot, and Tuck
erman's Ravine, near Hermit's Lake.
| The river Ammonoosue flows from the
Lake of the Clouds, the highest sheet
of placid water on the surface OF the
! globe It's waters would keep New
York city constantly supplied, could it
act as q natural reservoir. One of the
loveliest spots is the Emerald Pool, in
Peabody Riven Glen, and a decided
contrast to Eagle Cliff which stands
so named because of the outlines of a
human face can be seen from a certain
point in the valley below. Then there
| lis the Flume, through which mighty
volume of water rushes in the spring
and fall, but is unable to dislodge the
huge mass of granite that hangs
wedged in midair above the bed of the
torrent.
All these and other scenes of equal
interest are pictured and described in
! Picturesque America" Subscribers
will find them in the seventh part of
the series. The steel and wood engrav-
| ings were drawn by Harry Fem.
whose pencil always proved itself ia
cile in depicting mountain landscapes.
| When it is remembered that this beau
tiful work was originally sold at so
cents per part, and that The Herald is
now enabled to place it in the hands
| of its readers at 10 cents and four cou-
pons, it is not surprising that the or
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IRE. The fact is that in possessing a
copy of Picturesque America you are
enabled to make a tour of the entire
continent and learn more about your
own country than by actually visiting
| the different sections. Remember that
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