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Identifier: newenglandhumani00john (find matches)
Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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structure standing, though someof the debris struck it with sufficient force to move itslightly from its foundations. A flock of sheep thatwas in the yard in front of the house suffered no harm,but the barn was crushed and two horses in it werekilled. The bodies of all the members of the household ex-cept those of three of the children were found later.For twenty-one miles down the valley the turnpikewas demolished, and more than a score of bridges wereswept away. Some of the meadows were buried sev-eral feet deep with earth and rocks, and there weregreat barricades of trees that had been torn up by theroots. Thousands of people visit the top of Mount Wash-ington every year. This monarch of the New Eng- 262 New England land mountains is over one mile high. As you go up itthe trees steadily diminish in size, and at the height ofthree thousand feet they are not half as large as thosein the valley. At four thousand feet they are mereshrubs, scraggly, stunted, and gray with age and shaggy
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Mount Washington, the loftieri iii New England moss. At last, even these pinched earth-huggingbirches and spruces find the soil too thin and the war-fare with the elements too strenuous, and there isnought but a drear \vaste of shattered, lichened rocks,with intervals of coarse grass, moss, diminutive blue-berry bushes, and a few dainty blossoms. The rockfragments in this blighted upper region look as if theyhad lain there unchanged for ages. The White Mountains 263 There is a good road and a bridle-path to the sum-mit, but the cHmb is long and hard, and most peopleprefer to ride up on a queer little railway. The rail-way is in part laid at the surface of the ground, andin part on trestle-work which often passes over deephollows. There are cogwheels under the engine whichfit a hea\y cogged rail that is halfway between theother two. This enables the train to ascend and de-scend safely the steepest parts of the mountain. Themachinery is so made that no matter what happens toit the train

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