32 Review of Dr. Jackson’s Final Report 
other for five or ten miles, divide the waters flowing into the St. 
Lawrence from those of the Magalloway and Connecticut, be- 
yond which as far as the eye could reach, lay the extended table 
lands of Canada, unbroken by any abrupt elevation ; to the east, 
the lofty granite ranges of Maine, Mt. Bigelow and Mt. Abraham ; 
farther south, the numerous large lakes near Umbagog and the 
Diamond Hills; while in the farthest distance were seen the lofty 
peaks of the White Mountains; and to the west lay the lakes 
and tributary streams of the Connecticut, and the rolling ranges 
of the Green Mountains.” 
We have thus particularly noticed the report by Messrs. Whit- 
ney and Williams upon the northern section of the State, because 
so little is generally known of the region it relates to. We are, 
however, not quite contented with the knowledge we obtain of it 
from their remarks. These are, so far as they go, interesting and 
instructive, but they do not embrace all that we would like to 
learn, and which only a more thorough survey can impart. That 
as much was accomplished by these gentlemen as was possible 
under the circumstances of the case is manifest, but we cannot 
but. think time would have been well spent in giving this section 
of the State a more accurate examination than it received. 
The interest in the part of the work under consideration is 
much enhanced to the reader by the character of some of the 
country described in it. In the section from Haverhill to the 
White Mountains, surveyed by Dr. Jackson in person with his 
assistants, we have an account of that portion of the State, which 
embraces the most wild and romantic scenery of our country,— 
the mountains themselves towering to the heavens, presenting 
a thousand views of surpassing grandeur and beauty,—the well 
known Notch of the White Mountains, so called, and that of 
Franconia,—the “flume” and the “ basin’ of the latter place,— 
the profile view of “the old man of the mountain,” &c. &c., 
these are all embraced in this region, and have received proper 
notice from the ready pen of our author. 
In the narrative of field operations, we have of course an ac- 
count of the development of the various rocks in every portion 
of the State, and of the minerals imbedded in them, some of 
which latter were not before known to exist in New Hampshire, 
as for instance tin (which indeed has not been found in any 
