the same— three and a-half millions. • The scenery is more varied than in the other parts of America. In passing across it, there is a constant change — rivera, moun tains, lakes, woods, and open fields, with busy towns and smiling villages arresting the eye in quick succession during the whole journey of nearly 350 miles. At the station of Wells River, we cross the Connecticut River and enter the State of New Hampshire. It is called the State of Hills or the Granite State. In the northern parts there ate primeval forests, which &re still the home of wolvas and bears. The extensive ranges* and towering peaks of the White Mountains, of which we obtain a view in passing enveloped in a fleecy mantle, occupy more than 40 square miles, and we may readily understand the feeling of the Irishman on visiting this quarter, who said that the land there was so plen tiful that they had to keep it piled up in stacks. This district is sometimes called the Switzerland of America. It attracts numbers oi summer visitors ; yefc such mountainous regions are not likely to be so attractive to Americans as to moat European nations, as they do not under stand the pleasure of pedestrian excur- j sions ; and without that the charm of mountain travelling is greatly lost. Tl c highest peak is called Mount; Washington, and has a height of over six thousand feet. Moosehulock is over 4600 feet, and Monadnoch and Kearsarge are between 3000 and 4000 feet high. The whole range was called by the Indian tribes Agiochook, meaning mountains, of the snowy forehead and home of the Great Spirit. They deemed it an intrusion to scale them, and declared that none who did so was permitted to return to his awn people. They retain a tradition that once a blameless chief and his wife were borne up to the highest peak in a whirlwind, while all the world below was destroyed by a flood. Another is to the effect that a great warrior king who flourished among them in the 17th century went up to commune with some heavenly messen gers, and that he was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire. A number of tourists who have tried to make the ascenHinre cent years have perished. 