SCENOGRAPIIICAL GEOLOGY. 



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The Route over Madison, Adams, and Jefferson. 



The rush of travel to Mt. Washington passes up either the railway or 

 the carriage-road from the Glen. Every one desires to see these thor- 

 oughfares, and the fine views attainable from them; and perhaps the 

 fundamental idea of the mountains should be first apprehended from 

 these directions. The great conveniences of these routes are causing 

 the charming drives in other directions to be forgotten. Those who 

 have the leisure should not fail to traverse the road from Gorham to 

 Jefferson, on the north side of the mountains, as they will then best 

 catch the spirit of 

 the hills, especially 

 if they should leave 

 all travelled routes 

 behind, and clamber 

 over the rocks to 

 the summits of the 

 rarely visited peaks. 

 Any lover of moun- 

 tain scenery must 

 yearn to stand upon 

 the top of Mt. Ad- 

 ams, as he gazes in 

 that direction from 

 the Tip-top house. I have a few sketches setting forth certain peculiar- 

 ities of schist structure, which will also illustrate a way of reaching 

 Mt. Washington over Mt. Adams from Randolph, and may be described 

 appropriately here. Formerly there was a path up Israel's river, passing 

 over Mt. Jefferson, known as the Lancaster path, but it is now as little 

 frequented as the Davis bridle-path to the summit over Mt. Crawford. 

 They are both so overgrown as to be hardly distinguished from the 

 surroundings. The Lancaster path, however, is only partially the same 

 with the one under consideration. 



In Fig. 8 1 is a near view of an immense cleft on the north side of Mt. 

 Adams, noticeable also in Fig. TJ. This seems almost inaccessible from 

 below. In ascending to it there is no unusual difficulty, more than the 



Fig. 81. — king's ravine in mt. adams. 

 From Randolph hill. 



