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Connected with this title is a large colored vignette, six by ten inches 

 in dimensions. The title is inscribed upon the side of a shield-like cliff, 

 with evergreens upon its summit, and an eagle feeding her young. 

 Behind are several very high mountain peaks. On the left is a large 

 cataract adjacent to the Willey house, and a hunter shooting at a moose 

 on the border of a lake, — perhaps Winnipiseogee. On the right seems 

 to be the ocean leading out of Portsmouth harbor, with a tower on an 

 island, large ships, and a long arched bridge leading to Portsmouth. 

 Nearer to the front is an extensive canal lock, and people engaged in 

 agricultural operations, — ploughing and fishing. Directly in front of the 

 title shield are miscellaneous objects, as cannon, the state insignia, rolls, 

 baskets, etc. The name of the state is written in very large letters over 

 the vignette, and the dedication is placed beneath. Three side sketches 

 are the gap of the White Mountains, view of the Great Boar's Head with 

 Hampton beach, and the White Mountains from Shelburne. Some of 

 these will be reproduced with the map. Their vertical scale is so much 

 exaggerated that they are objects of curiosity. There are two side maps, 

 not reproduced : the first, of New England and the Dominion of Canada ; 

 the second, the United States as far as the Mississippi river. The early 

 period of the issue of the map is appreciated, when it appears that Illinois, 

 Indiana, and Michigan are represented here as territories. The following 

 text on the side of the map, relating to the state, may be of historic 

 interest. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE is bounded on the E. by Maine, and the Atlantic; S. by- 

 Massachusetts ; W. by the west bank of the river Connecticut as far as Lat. 45, and 

 then by Lower Canada to Maine. 



The line which divides New Hampshire from Maine, commencing at East Pond, and 

 extending to the north-east boundary of the state, was taken from three surveys, made 

 in 1741, 1768 and 1789 ; and is properly three lines. 



The first surveyor allowed too much for the westerly variation ; and the others, 

 successively adhering, at the periods of their respective surveys to the same allowance, 

 notwithstanding the continual retrogression of the needle, thereby increased the error, 

 and actually made three distinct courses. 



The royal order of 1740, by which this line should have progressed N. 2° W., has 

 therefore never been carried into effect. 



The southern boundary from the Pine, at the south-east corner of Pelham, to the 

 river Connecticut, was measured in 1741, and was intended to have been a due west 

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