THE GEOGRAPHY OF GROTON. 67 



AuBURNDALE, Mass., November 29, 1893. 

 Dr. Samuel A. Green: — 



Dear Sir, — I enclose the paper handed me on Monday at the 

 Topographical Survey Office containing queries in regard to moun- 

 tains seen from Gibbet Hill in Groton. I have laid out the bear- 

 ings which you give, on a chart that I constructed some twenty 

 years ago. 



You make no question in regard to Joe English and the Unca- 

 noonocks, and the bearings agree with the chart. Kearsarge you mark 

 with a query, but it is undoubtedly correct. It is 2,948 feet above 

 sea, distant from Gibbet 55 miles. Its profile from Gibbet would be 

 probably something like this : z'^— ;^^7~^ ' (depending on how much 

 of it you can see. This is compiled from sketches made from other 

 points in Massachusetts. The mountain N. 8° 40' E. marked in pencil 

 " Saddleback ? " is probably Gunstock, 6^ miles distant, 2,394 feet 

 high, in the town of Guilford, N, H., just south of Lake Winnepe- 

 saukee. It is the middle and highest peak of the Suncook Moun- 

 tains (or Belknap Mountains, modern name). I do not think I have 

 ever seen it from any point in Massachusetts, unless from Wachusett. 

 But from Groton you may look along the valleys of the Nashua, 

 Merrimack, and Suncook Rivers, a direct line to the source of the 

 latter in the Suncook Mountains. I wish the old name could be 

 restored. 



In regard to the two mountains seen from East Gibbet fX. iS° 

 50' E. and N. 23^ E.), I am not so confident. The former may be 

 Fort Mountain in Epsom, 1,428 feet high, and 41 miles distant; and 

 the latter. Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, about 1400 feet high, 

 and 55 miles distant. 



There is a range of hills sometimes called the Blue Hills (or Frost 

 Mountains), extending N NE-S SW in the towns of Milton, Farming- 

 ton, Strafford, Northvvood, and Epsom, about 1,000 to 1,400 feet high. 

 I have never explored them except from distant points with a glass. 

 As near as I can make out, Saddleback is a comparatively low hill in 

 the town of Northwood, which makes a fine show from the neighbor- 

 ing town of Deerfield, and used to attract some notice in stage-coach 

 days; and so has become famous as Saddleback "in Deerfield." 

 When any of its higher, but less known, neighbors are seen from a 

 distance, they are at once identified as Saddleback. I do not think 

 that I ever saw this mountain, but I have often tried to make it out. 



