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The tide of travel hitherwarcl had so uicreased that the 

 stages ran quite full from point to point at least once or 

 twice each day, and the Glen House in the Pinkham 

 Notch ; the Crawford House through the gateway of the 

 Crawford or White Mountain Notch ; and the Profile 

 House in that sequestered nook in the Franconia Notch, — 

 were all in full blast, having acquired a wide reputation. 

 These lovely spots in the mountains maintain the same 

 appearance that they did then, though the hotels liave all 

 been greatly enlarged and the railway has badly mutilated 

 the gateway at the Crawford. The nearest railroad con- 

 nections at that time, however, were at Gorham, Me., on 

 the Grand Trunk road, and Plymouth and Littleton on the 

 present Boston, Concord and INIontreal. Connections with 

 the Crawford House and North Conway were only by 

 stage, as is now the case at the Glen and Profile. The 

 nearest approach to easy connection with the summit of 

 Mount Washington, was a projected carriage road on the 

 Glen side — at that time completed for about a mile and 

 a half. 



The President then introduced Rev. Charles T. 

 Brooks, of Newport, E.. L, as one of a party of three 

 Salem people, two of whom are now living and present 

 at the meeting, who visited these mountains in 1834, on 

 a pedestrian expedition. Mr. Brooks then read the fol- 

 lowing poem : — 



A Mountain Amhle on Pegasus, with considerable Pre-amhie. Done for, 

 and dedicated to, the Essex Institute, of ISalera, 3Iass. Bead at 

 Craioford's White Mountain House, September 11, 1877. 



The learned body gathered here to-day 

 Will uot be greatly startled if I say 

 Frequent experiment has proved the rule, 

 That when a stone is dropped into a pool, 



