Identifier: scenicgemsofwhit00port (find matches)
Title: Scenic gems of the White Mountains
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Portland, Me. : G.W. Morris
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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NIA NOTCH.Starr King says that Franconia is more fortunate in its little tarn that is rimmed by the undisturbed wilderness, and watched by thegrizzled peak of Lafayette, than in the old Stone Face from which it has gained so much celebrity. It is toward evening that visitorsare usually drawn to the lake to sail upon it, and to hear the echos from which it derives its name. Its echos and its colorings compriseEcho Lakes chief charms. The climbing trees and the shadow of its steep shores make a large section of its borders dim with duskygreen. Farther out it is colored by the sky-hues with which it clothes itself. It is glad in the colors of sunrise, and pensive as theflames of sunset cool in the west. Our spirits followed every cloud That, though the glorious summer hue That oer it and within it floated; That steeped the heavens could scarce be brighter. Our joy in all the scene was loud The blue below was still more blue, Yet one thing silently we noted : * The very light was lighter.
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THE FLUME, FRANCONIA NOTCH.The Flume is the chief attraction at the lower end of the Franconia Notch even as the Profile is of the upper, narrower and morecompact terminus. It is a deep and narrow canon which has been worn by a mounain stream, through the coarse granite ledges nearthe base of Mount Flume. The canoT is a trench full seven hundred feet long and from ten to twenty feet wide, between parallelperpendicular cliffs fully sixty feet in height. At the bottom a merry little brook dashes down amid the rocky fragments, skirted andoften crossed by an easy plank walk. Wedged between the narrowing walls of the upper part of the chasm a great boulder hungsuspended for centuries between the rim and floor. This mighty rock was swept away by a tremendous avalanche in June, 1883, causedby rains on the summits above, rushing down through the flume. This famous locality is less than a mile from the Flume House, acarriage-road leads almost to its entrance.

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