CHAPTER VII. 



TOPOGRAPHY. 



SHE general shape of the territory of New Hampshire is that of a 

 scalene, almost a right-angled triangle, — having the perpendicular 

 one hundred and eighty, and the base seventy-five miles long. From the 

 crown monument, at the extreme north point, to the south-east corner of 

 Pelham, at the most southern extension, the distance is one hundred and 

 eighty miles, — the length of the perpendicular. The longest distance 

 that can be measured in the state is from the crown monument to the 

 south-west corner, a distance of one hundred and ninety miles, and this 

 line would be the hypothenuse of the triangle. The greatest width of 

 the state is from Chesterfield to the outer island of the Isles of Shoals, a 

 distance of one hundred miles. To the outermost projection of Rye 

 from Chesterfield, the distance is seven miles less. At Colebrook, the 

 width of the state is only twenty miles. 



New Hampshire is bounded north by the province of Quebec, east by 

 the state of Maine, south-east by the Atlantic ocean and Essex county, 

 Mass., south by the state of Massachusetts, west and north-west chiefly 

 by the state of Vermont, and partially by Quebec. It lies between 

 70° 37' and 72° 37' longitude west from Greenwich, and between 42" 40' 

 and 45° 18' 23" north latitude. 



The books usually give the area of the state as 9,280 square miles. 

 Mr. Warren Upham carefully measured the area of the state upon J. R. 

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