26 Some Account of an Excursion to 



V. Some Account of an Excursion to the White-Hills 

 of New-Hampshire, in the year 1807. In a letter t» 

 the Editor, from George Shattuk, M. D., of 

 Eos ton. 



Dear. Sir, 



HAVING learned, last winter, from Mr. A., that 

 you had expressed a wish to obtain some farther infor- 

 mation respecting the " White-Hills," I promised you, 

 in my last letter, a short account of my journey from 

 Hanover, to visit them. 



July 8th, our party, consisting of five besides myself, 

 sat out from Hanover*, and, at the close of the second 

 day, arrived at the base of the Hills, their distance 

 from the place at which we commenced our journey 

 being about seventy-five miles. 



The instruments which we carried with us were a 

 barometer, a thermometer, a compass and chain, a qua- 

 drant, &c. I laboured hard to have our barometer in 

 such order, as to give the accurate weight of the at- 

 mosphere upon the summit of the mountain, and had 

 engaged gentlemen of my acquaintance, both at Hano- 

 ver and at Boston, to make simultaneous barometrical 

 and thermometries observations. An accident, the pre- 

 vention of which was beyond my controul, defeated all 

 our attempts to make observations with the barometer, 

 which we carried with us. 



• A town on the Connecticut-River, in Ncw-Iiajnpshire, lat. 43* 

 long;. 72° li'. 



