Guide to the White Mountains And Lakes of New Hampshire With Minute Accurate
Guide to the White Mountains And Lakes of New Hampshire With Minute Accurate
Chicago Ill Lewis Publishing Co
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At Franconia Notch and in its vicinity, are ma- ny of the greatest curiosities to be found in this Northern region. Here is Mt. Lafayette or the Great Haystack ; Mt. Jackson, on which is the " Old Man of the Mountain ;" Ferrin's Pond, the source of the middle branch of the Pemigewasset river ; the Basin, and the Flume. Mount Lafayette, or the Great Haystack, is a lofty conical mountain of granite, situat- ed to the southeastward of the village of Fran- conia. It is in height but seven hundred f...eet less than Mt. Washington, yet far more diffi- cult of ascent. The view from its summit is full of interest, and has been by many pro- nounced not inferior to that from its loftier ri- val. A very rude, and in some places abso- lutely dangerous, foot-path, has been cleared 36 WHITE MOUNTAIN GUIDE. for a greater part of the way to its top. It is indeed little better than no path at all. If the landlords of the village were to consult their own interests it would not long remain so. About midway up the mountain is belted with a forest of small spruce trees, beyond which are ledges and detached rocks of gran- ite, the loose blocks of which are generally angular.
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