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JEFFERSON REGION botanical 



GARDEN. 



The region covered in this paper includes primarily the 

 territory of the town of Jefferson, also that of the adjoining 

 towns of L,ancaster, Whitefield, Carroll, and Randolph, and the 

 northern and western slopes of the Presidential Range to the 

 Crawford House plateau. 



The town of Jefferson is situated immediately northwest 

 from the Presidential Range. The elevation of the village, 

 known as Jefferson Hill, upon the southwestern slope of Mt. 

 Starr King is 1450 feet. Mt. Starr King is the most southern 

 member of the Pilot Range extending northward, and rises to a 

 height of 3900 feet. Four miles eastward stands the little 

 hamlet of Jefferson Highland, situated on the southwestern 

 slope of Bois or Boy Mountain, at an elevation of 1650 feet. 

 Boy Mountain rises to a height of 2240 feet and terminates the 

 Randolph Range, which extends in an easterly direction nearly 

 parallel to the northern peaks of the Presidential Range. 

 Southward and westward from these settlements on the moun- 

 tain sides, and lying between Mt. Starr King and Boy Mountain 

 on the northeast and Cherry Mountain and the Dartmouth- 

 Deception Range on the southwest, is the valley section of 

 Jefferson, having an elevation of iioo to 1300 feet at the valley 

 bottom. This is the valley of Israel's River. The river flows 

 in a generally northwesterly direction the entire length of the 

 town into the Connecticut River at lyancaster. Along its course 

 are two mill ponds, one known as Davis's pond, formed by 



