The Heart of the White Mountains, Their Legend and Scenery

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Drake Samuel Adams. The Heart of the White Mountains, Their Legend and Scenery

PREFACE

FIRST JOURNEY

I. MY TRAVELLING COMPANIONS

II. INCOMPARABLE WINNIPISEOGEE

III. CHOCORUA

IV. LOVEWELL

V. NORTH CONWAY

VI. FROM KEARSARGE TO CARRIGAIN

VII. VALLEY OF THE SACO

VIII. THROUGH THE NOTCH

IX. CRAWFORD’S

X. THE ASCENT FROM CRAWFORD’S

SECOND JOURNEY

I. LEGENDS OF THE CRYSTAL HILLS

II. JACKSON AND THE ELLIS VALLEY

III. THE CARTER NOTCH

IV. THE PINKHAM NOTCH

V. A SCRAMBLE IN TUCKERMAN’S

VI. IN AND ABOUT GORHAM

VII. ASCENT BY THE CARRIAGE-ROAD

VIII. MOUNT WASHINGTON

THIRD JOURNEY

I. THE PEMIGEWASSET IN JUNE

II. THE FRANCONIA PASS

III. THE KING OF FRANCONIA

IV. FRANCONIA, AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD

V. THE CONNECTICUT OX-BOW

VI. THE SACK OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

VII. MOOSEHILLOCK

VIII. BETHLEHEM

IX. JEFFERSON, AND THE VALLEY OF ISRAEL’S RIVER

X. THE GREAT NORTHERN PEAKS

TOURIST’S APPENDIX. PREPARED FOR “THE HEART OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.”

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THE very flattering reception which the sumptuous holiday edition of “The Heart of the White Mountains” received on its début has decided the Messrs. Harper to re-issue it in a more convenient and less expensive form, with the addition of a Tourist’s Appendix, and an Index farther adapting it for the use of actual travellers. While all the original features remain intact, these additions serve to render the references in the text intelligible to the uninstructed reader, and at the same time help to make a practical working manual. One or two new maps contribute to the same end.

I take the opportunity thus afforded me to say that, when “The Heart of the White Mountains” was originally prepared, I hoped it might go into the hands of those who, making the journey for the first time, feel the need of something different from the conventional guide-book of the day, and for whom it would also be, during the hours of travel or of leisure among the mountains, to some extent an entertaining as well as a useful companion. So far as author and publisher are concerned, that purpose is now realized.

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THE entrance to North Conway is, without doubt, the most beautiful and imposing introduction to the high mountains.

Although the traveller has for fifty miles skirted the outlying ranges, catching quick-shifting glimpses of the great summits, yet, when at last the train swings round the foot of the Moat range into the Saco Valley, so complete is the transition, so charming the picture, that not even the most apathetic can repress a movement of surprise and admiration. This is the moment when every one feels the inadequacy of his own conceptions.

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