646 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



In Lancaster the view is always grand. Mt. Lyon to the north, and 

 thence eastward the broad sweep of the Pilot range, and the group of 

 mountains of which Starr King is the culminating point, are so situated 

 that every fine sunset gives to them that deep coloring which is the 

 charm of our mountain scenery. Most of the peaks of the White Moun- 

 tains can be seen from the village, but a ride of two miles east on the 

 road to Jefferson, to a point between three hundred and four hundred 

 feet above the Connecticut, brings them out in bolder relief, and at the 

 same time gives a charming view of the village and the Connecticut val- 

 ley. From Mt. Pleasant, which is easy of access, the view is still more 

 extended, and embraces the mountains southward. From Jefferson hill, 

 and thence on the road toward Randolph, we get a nearer view of the 

 mountains ; and the appreciation of the scenery is shown by the demand 

 for the numerous hotels in this vicinity. At the Mt. Adams house, the 

 broad sweep of forests, reaching from Israel's river almost to the summits 

 of the mountains, gives us one of the grandest of our autumn scenes. 

 From Dalton mountain we have the sweep of the whole horizon: wes^ 

 ward, the mountains in Vermont ; the Connecticut valley northward ; the 

 mountains of Stratford, Mt. Lyon, the Pilot range, Starr King, all the 

 White Mountains, the chief of the Franconia Mountains, and Moosilauke 

 southward. 



Albany Scenery.— Carroll County. 



Albany, except one broad interval in the western part, is a succession 

 of high ridges and mountain peaks. Here is Chocorua, with its serrated 

 mountain ridge and granitic summit. Of all our mountains, there is 

 none the summit of which appears so colossal as this, when seen from 

 the south-east spur. As its forests have been destroyed, standing on 

 this spur, it seems to be one massive granitic pile rising almost perpen- 

 dicular from the ridge. But the mountain itself is grand, look at it from 

 what direction we may, — ^from Lake Winnipiseogee, Eaton, or Conway, 

 from Mt. Washington, or the mountains west. Even if we look down 

 upon it as we pass over this mountain region in a balloon, — which we 

 have had an opportunity of doing,— on account of its sharpness it seems 

 more prominent than many mountains of greater height. But Passacon- 

 naway is the highest mountain in Albany, and, rising as it does nearly 



