Identifier: picturesqueameri01brya (find matches)
Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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the eye reaches the sea-line ninety miles away. The summit of MountWashington, from the plateauat the Notch House, is fivethousand feet high, and thisplateau in its turn is fourteenor fifteen hundred feet abovethe sea. The traveller, to fullyenjoy the view, should have aclear day, without too muchwind ; but, as no weather isso uncertain as the weather onMount Washington, one maybe pretty sure, in the courseof a twelve - hours stay, tohave fog and sunshine, rainand storm. Tuckermans Ravine liesa few hundred feet down theside of the mountain, and theridges in its rough, craggywall form the faint, pink-graylines that scar the summit ofMount Washington as seenat North Conway. If there istime, one can visit this ravine from the top of Mount Washington, and by a steepclimb reach the summit again before night from the Snow Arch. The ravine is an immense gully in the side of Mount Washington, the steep sidesof which storms and frost are constantly changing, so that no vegetation has a chance
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Crystal Cascade. THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 163 to take root, except the little yearly plant whose seeds may be scattered here, for thenext winters storms are sure to wash away the scanty growth. Against the head ofthe ravine, where it abuts against the summit of Mount Washington, the lofty wallsparkles with a thousand streams that filter through its crevices or run over its sum-mit. The Snow Arch is formed at first from the immense snow-drifts blown over thetop of the mountain, which settle against this wall of the ravine in piles sometimes ahundred feet deep, and in the short summer of this great altitude scarcely have timeto melt from year to year. The tourist to the summit of Mount Washington may descend, if he chooses, bythe carriage-road to the glen, which is approached from Conway through the Pink-ham Notch, that runs nearly parallel with the Willey Notch, north and south, and isseparated from it on the west by two ranges of mountains. Mount Crawford beingone of the peaks; and, on th

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