A Gazetteer of New Hampshire, Containing Descriptions of All the Counties, Towns, and Districts in the State: Also of Its Principal Mountains, Rivers, Waterfalls, Harbors, Islands, and Fashionable Resorts. To which are Added, Statistical Accounts of Its Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures ... |
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... Brook furnishes the principal mill sites . Catamount Hill is the highest land in the town . At the east end of this hill is a pre- cipice of seventy feet nearly perpendi- cular , at the foot of which is a cavern of some extent ...
... Brook furnishes the principal mill sites . Catamount Hill is the highest land in the town . At the east end of this hill is a pre- cipice of seventy feet nearly perpendi- cular , at the foot of which is a cavern of some extent ...
Page 30
... brooks find their way down the scrofulous and scorbutic habits ; for hills into the ponds or Blackwater . poisons by ivy , dogwood , & c . Excel- lent limestone is found here . The town assumed the name of Am- herst , in compliment to ...
... brooks find their way down the scrofulous and scorbutic habits ; for hills into the ponds or Blackwater . poisons by ivy , dogwood , & c . Excel- lent limestone is found here . The town assumed the name of Am- herst , in compliment to ...
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... Brook and Wild Amonoosuck Rivers . In the south- east part of Benton is Moosehillock Mountain . Owl - head Mountain lies in the west part of this town . Benton presents a rough and mountainous as- pect , and the soil in several parts is ...
... Brook and Wild Amonoosuck Rivers . In the south- east part of Benton is Moosehillock Mountain . Owl - head Mountain lies in the west part of this town . Benton presents a rough and mountainous as- pect , and the soil in several parts is ...
Page 38
... Brook on the west . The land in the valleys is generally good , and there is some good intervale . The high land is good for grazing . The forest trees are mostly deciduous . No white oak or pitch pine is found north of the centre of ...
... Brook on the west . The land in the valleys is generally good , and there is some good intervale . The high land is good for grazing . The forest trees are mostly deciduous . No white oak or pitch pine is found north of the centre of ...
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... Brook is a stream of great n to pass . Its form is very irre- importance , as it furnishes many mill - , and its height and breadth va- sites . ces . Spafford's Lake is a beautiful collec- tion of water , situated about one mile north ...
... Brook is a stream of great n to pass . Its form is very irre- importance , as it furnishes many mill - , and its height and breadth va- sites . ces . Spafford's Lake is a beautiful collec- tion of water , situated about one mile north ...
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