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��The White and Francotiia Mountains.

���declared Molly. "J like the modern way- best ; besides we get our money's worth Why ! any one of these views is worth, oh, — ' ever so much,' which includes hotel bills and all," laughed the cynical Fritz.

At Wells River a very high bridge

spans the Connecti- ^^to cut. Here the wat- ers of the tumbling Ammonoosuc, the wildest and most rapid stream in New Hampshire, joins the

CASTELLATZR RIDGE OF MOUNT JEFFERSON. ConnCCticUt in itS

tween Owl's Head and Moosilauke there journey to the sea. The highlands of is a deep valley through which winds a Bath repay attention as we journey road leading from Warren to Benton northward. Littleton is a thriving vil- and Dansville, affording a lonely but lage, which controls the business of this pleasant route through the mountains. section, and promises to be a northern

" That road," said Molly, " looks as metropolis, if it might be haunted by Claude Duval A few miles from Litdeton is Bethle- and his ilk ; I suppose there are robbers hem, a regular mountain village, with an among the mountains." altitude higher than that of any other

Fritz smiled. " We find them at the village east of the Mississippi. This is hotels now and then, and they wear diamond studs gener- ally," he said. "Our modern highwaymen (\<i not haunt lone- some defiles and cry ' Stand and Deliver.' That style is obso- lete ; nor are there any romantic stories told of their dancing on the green with the victims they have plundered. They are not gallant enough for that."

" I don't care."

��one of the most charming resorts in the

��� ��RAVINE IN MOUNT ADAMS, FROM RANDOLPH HILL.

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