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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



Fig. 23. MT. JEFFERSON AND GREAT GULF. 



post, and runs towards the 

 first. The frontispiece will 

 show the character of these 

 two valleys, and their rela- 

 tions to the adjoining moun- 

 tains. 



The shape of Jefferson 

 and the foot of Adams, as 

 seen from the Half-way 

 house, are indicated in Fig. 

 23. The sketch is designed 

 to show the shape of the 

 Great Gulf. Instead of re- 

 garding the eminences as 

 gravel banks, the reader 



From Half-way house. 



must realize that they represent 2,000 feet of altitude above the station 

 of the observer. 



Fig. 24 sketches the east side of Mt. Washington, from Thompson's 

 falls, in the Carter range, south of the Glen house. 



Fig. 24. RAVINES ON MT. WASHINGTON, FROM THOMPSON'S FALLS. 



The deep valley on the left is Tuckerman's ravine. Huntington's ra- 

 vine, the head of Peabody river, lies back of a low, woody ridge terminating 



