Chapter I: Foreword

Many of these informal reports of more than 14,000 miles’ driving were written for the Boston Evening Transcript some years ago, and the later letters for the Leominster Daily Enterprise. They cover an unbroken series of summer and autumn journeys, which have never lost any of the freshness and charm of that first little trip of two hundred miles along the Connecticut. A drive across the continent, or even on the other side of the water would seem less of an event to us now than that first carriage journey. This volume is a response to “You ought to make a book,” from many who have been interested in our rare experience.

F.C.A.
F.S.H.

Leominster, Mass.

CONTENTS.

I. SUMMER TRAVELS IN A PHAETON, 1

II. CHRONICLE OF THE TENTH ANNUAL DRIVE, 16

III. OLD ORCHARD AND BOSTON, 32

IV. MOOSILAUKE AND FRANCONIA NOTCH, 48

V. CONNECTICUT, WITH SIDE TRIP TO NEW
JERSEY, 73

VI. DIXVILLE NOTCH AND OLD ORCHARD, 91

VII. CATSKILLS, LAKE GEORGE AND GREEN
MOUNTAINS, 109

VIII. NARRAGANSETT PIER AND MANOMET POINT, 127

IX. WHITE MOUNTAINS AND VERMONT,
(A SIX HUNDRED MILES DRIVE.) 137

X. BY PHAETON TO CANADA,
(NOTES OF A SEVEN HUNDRED MILES TRIP.) 153

XI. OUTINGS IN MASSACHUSETTS, 173

XII. BAR HARBOR AND BOSTON, 190

XIII. DIXVILLE NOTCH AND THE NORTH SHORE, 211

XIV. THE KENNEBEC JOURNEY, 228

XV. ON HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS, (1894 TO 1904.) 241

XVI. LAKE MEMPHREMAGOG, 252

POSTSCRIPT. BUGGY JOTTINGS OF SEVEN HUNDRED
MILES DRIVING, CIRCUIT OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 265

14000 MILES