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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



Plate 3. Notch of the White Mountains, with the Willey house, taken from the 

 famous slide. This is the same with our small heliotype of Mt. Willard. 



Plate 4. Silver cascade. This accompanies the previous heliotype. 



Plate 5. Gate of the Notch, with the Notch house. This is reproduced in our 

 view from the Crawford house, save that no vestige of the Notch house is now left. It 

 was situated at the base of the Elephant's Head. 



Plate. 6. Lower falls of the Ammonoosuc. Preserved only as a small relief-plate 

 illustration in the next volume. 



Plate 7. Two enlarged views of the cliffs at the same locality. The building of a 

 saw-mill, the construction of a heavy railroad embankment alongside, and the removal 

 of the forests have taken away all the romance pertaining to these falls in Mr. Oakes's 

 day. 



Plate 8. Franconia notch, taken from the west. We have a small heliotype of the 

 same cliffs from the south, which seems to us to reproduce the spirit of the mountains 

 better than this plate. 



Plate 9. Profile mountain. Nothing equal to this appears in the report. 



Plate 10. The Profile rock. Reproduced in Figs. 74 and 75. 



Plate II. The Basin. Reproduced in a hehotype. 



Plate 12. The Flume. We have a view in the next volume of the great boulder 

 suspended over the Flume. This lithograph represents the whole of the gorge, also. 



Plate 13. Nancy's bridge. 



Plate 14. Mt. Oawford, from the Notch, and view in the opposite direction from 

 the top of Mt. Crawford. The reproduction of the first appears correctly in Fig. 26 

 and in a heliotype. But the artists have exaggerated the shape of the top of this 

 mountain, as will be seen by comparing Fig. 26 with our heliotype, which was taken 

 from almost the same spot. 



Plate 15. White Mountains, from Bethlehem; Mt. Washington, from the summit 

 of Mt. Pleasant; diagram of the whole range of the White Mountains. Only the 

 second of these is reproduced. 



Plate 16. Mt. Washington, from over Tuckerman's ravine. This is essentially the 

 same with our view of Mt. Washington from the south-east, and reveals features in the 

 structure of the range not so apparent from any other quarter. 



I may reasonably take the ground that every interesting feature of 

 New Hampshire scenery has been produced by geological agencies. In 

 proof of this proposition I would refer to the fact of the existence of 

 mountains, hills, and valleys. Not one of these ever came up out of the 

 depths without the aid of that force called elevation. Next, the present 

 shape of every ledge or mound has been fashioned by some excavating 

 agent, — rill, river, glacier, ocean wave, or atmospheric decomposition. 

 Lakes exist because permitted by the rock-bound barrier, or looser earth, 



