THE WILLEY BROOK BRIDGE.
The wild chasm between Mounts Willey and Willard is spanned by
this bridge. Through the gorge below flows a considerable stream,
with all the wildness that characterizes mountain waters, into
the Saco. At the farther end of the bridge the huge bulwark of
Mt. Willard seems an impassable barrier, yet the shelf cut for
the passage of trains appears diverging to the right. This shelf
is not at the bottom of the valley by any means, but well up its
granite side. It is just around the shoulder of Mt. Willard that
we meet the preceding view (looking down the Crawford Notch from
Elephant's Head), meet, for this view is looking up the valley
toward Elephant's Head. Upon the bridge is a Maine Central locomotive,
and just across is the picturesque home of the railroad men who
patrol these mountain paths constantly, to prevent disaster. The
house has received the title "John O'Groats."
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