1894
June 15
(No 2)
Breezy Point, Warren, N.H.
"Merrill's Mountain House" - so reads the sign over our
door - was originally a small farm house but its
present owner ( Mr. Arros L. Merrill) and his father
have enlarged it from time to time until there are
now accommodations for twenty to thirty guests. It
stands on a knoll at an elevation (it is laid) of
1700 ft. above the sea and 800 ft. above the village of
Warren which is five miles distant. The primitive forest
begins at the upper end of Merrill's clearing where the
carriage rod to the summit of Mt. Moosilauke (distant five miles from the
house} plunges directly into the solid woods. In the
direction of Warren the entire valley is cleared and under
more or less thorough cultivation excepting immediately
along the river which for the distance of a mile or
more below the house flows through a picturesque ravine
nearly if not quite 100 ft. in the depth and heavily wooded.
Along the sides of the valley steeply sloping pastures
more or less grown up to young [?] extend back
to the lower edge of the original forest which clothes[?]
the upper slopes and crests of the mountains on either
hand.
  The country in every direction is refreshingly green and
bright after the dust-stained foliage and drought-parched
fields which we have just left behind in Massachusetts.