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valley widens so as to give a great breadth of alluvial meadow between 

 the villages of Haverhill and Newbury, more so than at any other point in 

 the valley, the nearest approach 

 to it below being in Walpole and 

 Westminster. These meadows 

 are two miles in width, and the 

 river is very crooked, flowing 

 nearly twice as far as the linear 

 distance from Howard's island 

 to the south line of Haverhill. 

 From the village of Newbury, 

 which is located upon a beauti- 

 ful terrace, one can see the hills 

 rise higher and higher back of 

 Haverhill, to the lofty ridge of 

 Moosilauke, the south-west ex- 

 tension of the White Moun- 

 tains. There are five peaks in 

 a line below the highest ridge, 

 which are distinguished by 

 their baldness, and known as 

 Owl's Head, Blueberry, Hog's 

 Back, Sugar Loaf, and Black 

 mountains. 



On the Vermont side the 

 hills are scattered, abundant, 

 and are in no way remarkable 

 directly opposite the Haverhill 

 section ; but the range from Knox mountain in Orange to Cow hill in 

 Peacham is the counterpart of the Moosilauke group, a little farther north. 



The Ammonoosuc section may embrace all that lies east of the Con- 

 necticut as far north as Dalton above Haverhill. The calcareous rocks 

 mostly disappear to make way for the older and harder green schist, 

 which gives a different shape to the hills. This is where the Connecticut 

 bends north-east and east, and in the angle of the bend is the Gardner 

 mountain range, reaching nearly 2,000 feet. Landaff, Lisbon, and Little- 



