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Railway. This line is reached on the Connecticut, near the "hollow," 

 six miles below the lake. 



Contours from 2,000 to 6,000 feet high. These are confined to com- 

 paratively small areas, and need not be described fully in the text. Only 

 two mountains, Monadnock and Cardigan, south of the Boston, Concord 

 & Montreal Railroad, exceed 3,000 feet, while Kearsarge and Cuba are 

 nearly as high. In the same district the following exceed 2,000 feet : 

 Bald, Pack Monadnock, Crotched, Pitcher, Croydon, Melvin, Sunapee, 

 Ragged, Lovell's, Moose, Smart's, Piermont, Webster slide, and Mist. 

 Near Winnipiseogee lake, Gunstock, Belknap, Ossipee, Green, Cropple 

 Crown, Red Hill, Prospect, Israel, and Squam exceed the same figure. 

 Nearly all the White Mountain elevations are more than 2,000 feet high. 



North of the Grand Trunk Railway the following peaks exceed 2,000 

 feet : Ingalls, HaK-moon, Dustan, Hampshire hills, Pisgah, Lyon, Percy 

 peaks, Stratford mountains, Dixville range, peaks in Millsfield, Stewarts- 

 town, Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy grant, Webster, Mt. Carmel, 

 and the highland boundary. 



The special arrangement of the elevated contours about the White 

 Mountains can be best understood by reference to the maps in the atlas. 

 Washington is the only peak exceeding 6,000 feet. Eight are more than 

 S,ooo feet high, viz., Adams, Jefferson, Clay, two Monroes, Madison, La- 

 fayette, and Lincoln. Fourteen equal or exceed 4,500 feet, viz., Franklin, 

 Pleasant, two Carters, Moriah, Carrigain, Moosilauke, Flume, Liberty, 

 south peak of Lafayette range, four of Twin Mountain range, and perhaps 

 others. Twenty equal or exceed 4,000 feet, viz., two Whitefaces, Passa- 

 connaway, four of the Tripyramid, Osceola, — Sandwich Dome lacks only 

 one foot of it,— Hancock, Willey, Field, one between Nancy and Lowell, 

 highest peak of Willey chain. Kinsman, Blue, Wild-cat, Webster, Jackson, 

 Clinton, and perhaps others. Twenty-eight equal or exceed 3,000 feet, 

 viz., Crawford, Resolution, Giant's stairs, Tri-mountain, Silver spring. 

 Table, Chocorua, Pequawket, Baldface, Doublehead, Mote, Welch, Echo, 

 Profile, Black (Warren), Kineo, Cushman, Waternomee, Carr, Bear, 

 Lowell, Nancy, Randolph, South, Long, Starr King, Pilot, Cherry, and 

 others unnamed. Those above 2,000 feet are still more numerous. 



Conclusions. From the presentation of the above facts, we may per- 

 ceive that the land rises in passing north-westerly from the coast till the 



