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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRY FENN.
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The White Mountains, from the Conway Meadows. TIS TE suppose that all our readers know that the White Mountains are in New ^ Hampshire, and that they are the highest elevations in New England, and,with the exception of the Black Mountains of North Carolina, the highest in theUnited States, east of the Mississippi. The mountains rise from a plateau about forty-five miles in length by thirty in THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 151 breadth, and about sixteen hundred feet above the sea. This plateau, from which risenearly twenty peaks of various elevations, and which is traversed by several deep, nar-row valleys, forms the region known to tourists as the White Mountains. The peakscluster in two groups, the eastern of which is known locally as the White Mountains,and the western as the Franconia Group.- They are separated by a table-land varyingfrom ten to twenty miles in breadth. The principal summits of the eastern group are Mounts Washington, Adams, Jef-ferson, Madison, Monroe, Webster, Clinton, Pl

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