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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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adily see by examination of the views on this and its vis-a-vis page that the camera was focused upon the same noble picture fromnear-by points on the old stage road. There is the same sky-line with the vast terraces of the Giants Stairs on the main range. These are visiblealso during the railroad ride through the Crawford Notch. Their altitude is 3,500 feet. The ride upward from Jackson along the ascendinggrades of the Pinkham Notch is beautiful to a degree ; the mountain road is altogether exciting. It is such a ride as one may only elsewhereenjoy amid the Rockies and the stages, horses and experienced drivers form a complete establishment. Ten miles from Jackson brings one to thesite of the Glen House, unhappily destroyed by fire prior to the opening for the season of 1S94. From the Glen site to the summit of MountWashington is a distance of eight and one-half miles. The carriage road rivals the railroad route in interest and both should be enjoyed as it iseasily possible to do so.
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THE SUMMIT HOUSE.—MT. WASHINGTON.No White Mountain tour is complete without a visit to the summit of Mt. Washington, — crown of New England, 6,293 feet high, or morethan one and one-half miles above sea level. Its Summit House receives a host of visitors, estimated at ten thousand each short season. It is along, plain three-storied structure of wood, solidly bound down to the ledges, and adequate to the accommodation of 150 guests. Two steamheated and electrically lighted stories are for sleeping rooms. It is always cold on the summit, even in August; the highest temperature onrecord is but 72°, and the ordinary summer ranges from 40° to 6o°. Guests on retiring are furnished candles of the good old fashioned non-explosive variety. The lower story contains parlors, a large dining room, the offices with telegraph and postal auxiliaries, and in the center agreat, generously filled coal stove, which usually draws within its influence most of the visitors to the summit, for the spac

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