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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



in the Commonwealth, and Mount Everett, "the Dome 

 of the Taconics", 2,624 feet, in the southwestern corner, 

 the next loftiest. Both are state reservations, are well 

 supplied with roads and trails and are easily and profit- 

 ably climbed. The first has a fire lookout upon it, the 

 second a small 

 hotel. Bdar 

 Hill, the high- 

 est eminence 

 in Connecti- 

 cut, 2,355 feet, 

 is only four 

 nulcs from 

 Mount Ever- 

 ett. The Ta- 

 conic Range, 

 which contin- 

 ues northward 

 along the 

 western 'b o r- 

 der of Ver- 

 mont for half 

 the length of 

 the state, has 

 had its geolog- 

 i c a 1 history 

 minutely and 

 i n t e restingly 

 told by T. 

 Nelson Dale, 

 of the United States Geological Survey 



A SECTION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RANGE 



This shows Mounts Adams and Madison from Glen Road, in the White Mountain Na- 

 tional Forest. New Hampshire. 



autumnal equinox, in the year 1823. It is most likely 

 an Indian name, Equanok. 



East of Taconic Range are the Green Mountains, be- 

 ginning with the hills of Connecticut and continuing 

 through Massachusetts, the watershed of the Hoosatonic 



and Connecti- 

 cut Rivers. 

 On the hill 

 tops of the 

 latter state are 

 the highest 

 towns in New 

 England, 

 Peru, Wind- 

 sor, Savoy and 

 Florida (a 1 1 

 over two 

 thousand feet 

 above the 

 sea), recalling 

 Dr. Johnson's 

 lines : 



Let observation 

 with extensive 

 view 

 Survey mankind 

 from China to 

 Peru* 



In Vermont 

 there are four 

 of the Green 

 M o u n t a i ns 



The highest 



of the range, near the beautiful village of Manchester, 

 where the sidewalks are of marble, the commonest rock 

 thereabouts, is Mount Equinox, 2,816 feet, which prob- 

 ably has nothing to do with the sun crossing the equa- 

 tor, though it was first climbed about the time of the 



over four thousand feet, the highest. Mount Mansfield, 



Massachusetts is not alone in its strange choice of names. 

 Scotland and Lisbon join Canterbury in Connecticut; Berlin and 

 Milan are side by side in northern New Hampshire; while 

 among the hills of Maine, Norway, Paris and Oxford arc 

 grouped together, with Denmark, Sweden and Naples nearby, 

 and Limerick in the offing. 



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A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RANGE IN LATE OCTOBER IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 



This beautiful range, the New England Highlands, culminates in Mount Washington, rising above its peers to a magnificent 

 height of 6,293 feet. Some of the most perfect recreation country in the United States is found here. 



