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Identifier: newenglandhumani00john (find matches)
Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f six early Presidents of the United States their gray mists. The view from the top is very wide-reaching on a clear day, and Mount Katahdin in Mainecan be seen off on the northeastern horizon one hun-dred and fifty miles away. Every three hundred feet above the sea level bringsthe temperature down about one degree, which meansa difference of twenty degrees in the case of the sum-mit of Mount Washington. The air there is nearlyalways cool, and in winter the mercury has been knownto go down to fifty degrees below zero. The White Mountains 265 Aside from the mountains themselves and their wildnotches there are several attractions, such as EchoLake, the Old Man of the Mountain, and the Flume,which every visitor wishes to see. Echo Lake in the Franconia Notch is a dainty bodyof water with steep wooded heights rising from its bor-ders. If you stand on the shore opposite the bluffs,your voice or the report of a pistol or the notes of abugle come back with startling clearness on a quiet day.
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Echo Lake Only a mile away is Profile Lake, from which thewoods sweep up a precipitous slope for more than a 266 New England thousand feet, and you see near the summit the grimstone features of the Old Man out jutting from a tre-mendous cliff. The face itself is forty feet in length,but the beholder does not realize its great size at such a distance,and marvelsmost that it isso strikinglyhuman. TheIndians wereits original dis-coverers, andyou wonderwhat impres-sion was madeon them bythat strangeface gazingforth from thebrow of thewildernessmountain. The Flume is an almost straight cleft nine hundredfeet long and sixty or more deep. Its perpendicularwalls are only a few feet apart, and a little streamrushes down the shadowy depths with much noise andturmoil. The stream enters the upper end of theFlume by a leap from the brow of a precipice in agraceful cascade.

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