46 SURVEY OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
which follows. The computations are illustrated in Mr. Boutelle’s letter. The heights 
of the first five points were obtained by levelling directly from the middle point between 
high water and low water mark, in the ordinary manner of levelling for rail-roads and 
canals. 
TABLE OF THE HEIGHTS OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS AND STATIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS, 
ABOVE SEA LEVEL. 
: : Heights | Heights in 
__Names of Stations. | = in what towns situated, in feet, | Names of Stations. | In what towns situated. | feet. 
Bullock’s Neck On the State line at Seekonk | 15.80 || Chandier’s Hill Worcester ‘| 744.60 
Med we he da ae | Mean 748.37 752,14 
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Telegraph Hill Marshfield 905.30 || Watatic Mt. | Ashburnham | 1847.35 
Hyannis Signal Barnstable 81.42 || Castle Hill | Saugus | 287.99 
Blue Hill Milton ~ 635.13 || Hoit’s Hil ' 425.40 
| Mean 635.05 | 634.97 | 0°" 8 3M — o 420.51 
Prospect Hill Waltham 487.52 Mean 422.95 ae 
479.67 ike 
Mean 482.27 | 479.63 | Prospect Hill | Rowley | 264.85 
Prospect Hill | Hingham | 243.23 || Ayer’s Hill Haverhill 344,29 
Scituate Hill Cohasset 186.13 336.69 
bilan Mean 339.23 336.71 
| = oo || Powow Hill Salisbury 325.23 
pete persia Babe | Mean 998.02 | 330.81 
Monk’s Hill Kingstown 312.86 : : pester 
Mean 312.93 313.00 | Rail-cut Hill Gloucester nea 
Sprague’s Hill oer 198.54 ‘Mean 204,68. | 208,20 
Mean 192.26 | 194.03)| Salisbury Marsh | State line, Salisbury | 4.61 
Red Brush Hill | Wrentham 458.74. * Mean 5.86 | 712 
Mean 455.86 452.98 State House, Boston 247,97 
4 ) Wrentham 484.64 (Top of Cupola.) 
~~ [em Mean 485.84 | 487.04) Mean 248.84 | 249.71 
Beacon Pole Hill Cumberland R. I. ) 615.19] Tuft’s Hill New Braintree 1185.45 
Mean 516.58 517.98 ee iies : ce 
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Fay’s Mountain Westborough 707.35 || - —— _ ————— 3 
Mean 706.87 706.39 || Hawe’s Hill | Barre Nec tenet reage 
He Se ean 1285, 289.48 
Bald Hill | Douglass 710.57) —_—_. : ftohch ci AQ 
710.17 || Packard’s Mountain New Salem : 1289.41 
Mean 713.56 719.94 |) : Mean 1277.82 1278,24 
Allum Pond Station “Douglass ey | Colonel’s Mountain | Palmer ee 
81.2 178.95 
Mean 777.61 776.27 es Mean 1171.67 | 1174.60 
Mount iel “Webster 785.31 || Mount Grace Warwick 1631.35 
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NoWoeor of R T] [683.22 Bear Mountain | Wendell rwisen 1981.93 ibe 
Hatchet Hill Connecti’t line, Southbridge ee Walnet Ea Soe 1865.87 
Mean 1015.94 | 1014.54 | Mean 1887.94 | 1890.02 
Mugget Hill Charleton 1017.63 || More’s Hill | Goshen } 1713.08 
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Mean 1011.62 | 1008 30) High Ridge ie bveseramte pate eS 
ifusdebamekit Hill | Paxton | 1407.42}| French’s Hill Peru serenade a 6 
<KTacuahatt Mouni’n | Princeton 2013.00 |) ___ ; ie ovis ee 
Wacushett Mount’n 2022.63 || Saddle Mountain | Adams 3506.16 
Mean 2022.02 2030.44. Mean 3505.50 | 3504.85 
* This may be considered as a test station, It stands upon a rock, in the marsh, probably from one to two feet above 
high water;—the tide ebbs here about ten feet at an average. 
