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VOL. 10. SALEM, OCT., Nov., DEC., 1878. Nos. 10, 11, 12. 



WHITE MOUNTAIN FIELD MEETING, SEPTEMBER, 1878. 



MEMBERS of the Essex Institute, with their friends, 

 numbering about one hundred and twenty-five, left Salem 

 on Tuesday morning, September 3, for their third annual 

 excursion among the White Hills of New Hampshire, 

 and to hold a meeting on Thursday evening at Fabyan's, 

 the base of Mt. Washington. The route, thither, varied 

 somewhat from that of either of the two previous excur- 

 sions ; passing through Lowell, Nashua, Manchester, Con- 

 cord, to the Weirs, 'where the steamer "Lady of the Lake" 

 was awaiting the arrival, to take the party over the placid 

 waters of the Lake and among the numerous islands to 

 Centre Harbor, when dinner was served at the Senter 

 House. In the afternoon re-embarked on board the 

 steamer and returned to Weirs, and thence proceeded by 

 rail to Plymouth, where the night was passed at the Pem- 

 igewasset House. The next morning, Wednesday, by 

 stages, went to the Profile House through the Pemigewas- 

 set valley, stopping at the Flume House to view the vari- 

 ous objects of interest in that locality. The scenery of 



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