LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PRINTED WITH THE TEXT. 



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Vignette on title-page, from a photograph of the "Old Man of the Mountains," 

 Franconia. 



Mts. Madison and Washington, from Shelburne, 3 



Fig. I , Dr. Jackson's ideal section, 10 



Granite ledge in Bartlett, 12 



Castellated ridge of Mt. Jefferson 28 



Fig. 2, ISection across the Flume, 43 



Fig. 6, Ice formed on Mt. Washington with south-west wind, .... 58 



Fig. 7, Lancaster and the White Mountains 68 



Fig. 8, Giant's Grave, 73 



Fig. 9, The Willey slide and monument, 77 



Fig. 10, Summit of Mt. Washington, from the north, in winter, .... 91 



Fig. II, Measuring the wind, 95 



Fig. 13, Laying the cable on Jacob's Ladder 100 



Fig. 13, The home of the winter expedition, 103 



Fig. 14, Corona seen April 28, iij 



Fig. 15, Anemometer, 118 



Tracks of storm centres for January, 1874, 120 



Fig. 16, Tip-top house in winter, 131 



Fig. 17, Velocity of wind in miles per hour, 135 



Fig. 18, Height of barometer corrected for pressure 135 



Diagram I, Fluctuations in rain-fall on Atlantic coast 137 



Diagram II, Fluctuations in rain-fall of upper Connecticut valley, . . 137 



Diagram III, Fluctuations in snow-fall of upper Connecticut valley, . 137 



Diagram IV, Fluctuations in rain-fall at Lake Village 137 



Diagram V-A, Maximum temperature at Claremont and Stratford, . . 139 



