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 The IVIiiic and Frauconia Mountains.

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■thule of grandeur in an artist's pilgrim- age?" said IMoUy. "What a prospect ! The plains of Canada, the forests of Maine, the mountains of New York, and I really believe the sea, if I mistake not that faiftt blue line in the far dis- tance over the billowy land ! What a grand spectacle a sunrise or a sunset would be, viewed from this height ! "

The next morning we saw the sun start from its bed in the Orient, swathed in rad- iant clouds and vapors, and rise up behind the eastern range of hills ; we had never seen any- • thing so beautiful and striking before, and the scene is one which neither pen can de- scribe nor pencil por- tray. Our memory will not fail to cherish it as the choicest revelation to be seen in a life t'me. " Do you know it was just one hundred years ago this very year.

��1 784, Mount Washington ra- ce i v e d its name?" asked Fritz. •' Well it was, and eight years later Cap- tain Eleazar Rossbrook pen- etrated into the heart of the mountains and made a clearing where the Fab- yan House now stands. His son- in-law, Abel Crawford, the patriarch of the mountains, settled the next sea- son in the Notch, in the vicinity of Bemis station. Captain Rossbrook built the first house for the reception of visitors in 1803. Ethan Allen Craw- ford, son of Abel Crawford, took Cap- tain Rossbrook's house in 181 7, and

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