Book excerpt: Excerpt from Consumers' Digest, Vol. 8: July, 1940 First of all, in New England, you've no doubt been told that the principal scenic route is through Franconia Notch. A notch is what New Yorkers know as a glen, chasm, or clove, what Pennsylvanians call a gap, and westerners a canyon. When you see a spectacular canyon, tall with steep walls, you see something as thrilling as anything Nature can show you. In Franconia Notch (us Highway 3, between North Woodstock, n.h. And Twin Mountain), you pass the Old Man of the Mountains, a giant stone face about which you heard in grammar school - it's so well known. In this notch you also stop to inspect The Flume, a gorge within a gorge, narrow and perpendicular. Along the road, you pass giant potholes, great pits rubbed out of a granite base by boulders during the glacial era. To the east of Franconia Notch, you drive through Crawford Notch, perhaps an anti - climax after Franconia, yet one of the showplaces of New England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.