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river clear & transparent & the purest glass we crossed & recrossed many times the different colored stones on the bottom showing so beautifully through the limpid water. We arrived at the Crawford House at the "Notch" about one we assented Mt Willard the same day a bold precipitous cliff on one side, a wooded slope on the other a carriage road has been made winding round its side to the top 1500 feet high commanding a most charming view of the Willey valley where was the "slide" of '26 with destruction of the Willey family; it is so steep as to take four horses to draw us. The next day bright & early we set out for the ascent of Mt Washington We rode horseback with pea-jackets &c. 9 miles ascending, & descending too some four separate peaks, Clinton, Pleasant, Franklin & Monroe about the pure exhilaration air, the grandiose the beauty the almost terrible magnificence of the views I cannot write, my mind & imagination are full of them If I could tell but I cannot now; after riding eighteen miles up & down the mountains we rode by stage about 30 more arriving at ten eve at Franconia Notch at Profile House saw the ' old Man' but was obliged to hasten away in order to get to the