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6. Carrigain and Osceola Group, Across from Mt. Webster the Mt. 

 Washington range is continued in the mountains culminating in Carri- 

 gain, 4,67'8 feet high. This is a lofty, conical summit, occupying the most 

 conspicuous position in the horizon when seen from Mts. Washington, 

 Crawford, Pequawket, Moosilauke, and Lafayette. Two summits in this 

 line, north of Carrigain, have names, viz., Mts. Nancy and Lowell, — the 

 latter after Abner Lowell, of Portland, and known heretofore as Brick- 

 house mountain. There is an interesting gap between Lowell and Carri- 

 gain, represented in the chapter on Scenery. The original of this sketch 

 was prepared by George F. Morse, of Portland, who visited Mt. Carrigain,^ 

 in company with G. L. Vose, in 1869. The depth and impressiveness of 

 the notch remind one of the great gap between Willey and Webster. It 

 would be a good route for a carriage-road from Bartlett over to the east 

 branch of the Pemigewasset. Nearly west from Carrigain is Mt. Hancock 

 (Pemigewasset of Guyot). It is nearly as high as Carrigain (4,420 feet), 

 and falls off gradually to the forks of the East Branch on the east line of 

 Lincoln. The space between Carrigain and Osceola abounds in granite 

 mountains, often with precipitous sides. Tripyramid may represent a 

 spur (if not an isolated group) from them, running towards Whiteface. 

 Between Tripyramid and Osceola there is a deep gap, in which the Greeley 

 ponds are situated. Osceola, or " Mad River peak" of Guyot, is a double 

 mountain with a deep excavation on the south side for one of the tribu- 

 tary streams of Mad river. The range is continuous into Tecumseh, 

 Fisher's, and Welch mountains in Waterville. Sketches of Osceola and 

 Tecumseh are presented herewith. 



Osceola is the highest 

 mountain on the left, in 

 Fig. 28, and the most 

 distant peak on the right 

 is its eastern spur. Mad 

 river comes from a valley 

 to the right of all the 

 hills represented in the 

 sketch. There is a deep valley to the south-west of Osceola. Then a 

 mountain appears much like Osceola reversed. It is shown in Fig. 29, 



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Fig. 28. — MT. OSCEOLA. 



From S. M. near Greeley's hotel, Waterville. 



