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attraction. So, February 27tli the day after I was through 

 work proving clear, and while cold without much wind, I got 

 ^\^^f}^' the man in charge of the Mt. Washington base 

 -winter. station to go along to help with my pack, and 



assure me of getting into the right road for the descent on 

 the other side. Tooether then we snow-shoed up to timber- 

 line, sweating profusely, though the mercury was away'.below 

 zero, then up over Jacob's ladder and to the summit we made 

 a highway of the sleepers of the railway, or even of the Ijolts 

 of the central track, where the gales of the summit had blown 

 them clear of snow. Higher and liio:her we went, the hand 

 of my aneroid going round the circle once and part way 

 round again, above the timber, above the old car side-tracked, 

 up by height after height of the surrounding land till we 

 stood on the highest summit in New England. The country 

 lay before us, liut little that was satisfactory was to be seen. 

 Water areas and cleared land were indistino-uishable under 

 their coat of snow. A strong wind was drawing across the 

 mountain, and it was piercing cold. Twenty minutes was as 

 long as I cared to stay there. Then paying off the French- 

 man, I swung on my pack once more and started down the 

 east side for the Glen House. First on the hard driven snow 

 of the summit, later following the turns of the road which 

 now in many places was blown full to an even slope both up 

 and down the mountain, lastly through the timber on snow- 

 shoes or slidino- down the stretches of glare ice where the 



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brooks in warm weather had overflowed the road. It was a 

 delightful trip, just a pleasing variety for an active and cool- 

 headed man. Arriving before night at what was left of the 

 old Glen House, next day I took up my work and my abode 

 in the concern of the Libby's of Gorham. 



The valley of Peabody river in which the Glen House w^as 

 located, is a deep gorge between Mts. Washington, Jefferson 

 and the others that make up the Presidential Range, and the 

 lesser range to the east, in the direction of Wild river. At 

 the outlet of the valley, at Gorham, are the mills of E. 



