| Benjamin Silliman - 1829 - 140 pages
...villages—burying their inhabitants in the wreck, or sweeping them away by the overflowing of the waters. Even the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, have been the scenes of similar catastrophes, and the Notch in the White Mountains, will long record... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1829 - 602 pages
...burying their inhabitants in the wreck, or sweeping them away by the overflowing of the waters. Even the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, have been the scenes of similar catastrophes, and the Notch in the White Mountains, will long record... | |
| Richard Brookes - 1832 - 864 pages
...of Virginia, the Alleghany and Laurel mountains of Pennsylvania, the Catskill mountains of New York, the Green mountains of Vermont, and the White mountains of New Hampshire. They are sometimes broken into groups and isolated chains. Their highest summits are in N. Hampshire... | |
| Richard Brookes - 1839 - 828 pages
...Virnnii, the Allegheny and Laurel mountains of rennsylfania, the (Jatskill mountains of New Tor«, the Green mountains of Vermont, and the White mountains of New Hampshire. They ire »metí пи- 1 broken into groups and isolated rliiini. Their hijrhfst summits are in N.... | |
| Bishop Davenport - 1843 - 604 pages
...of Virginia, the Alleghanyand Laurel Mountains of Pennsylvania, the Catskill Mountains of New York, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. They are sometimes broken into groups and isolated chains. Their hi ihc<t summits arc in New Hampshire;... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 426 pages
...Mountains, the lilne uidge, the Allcganles, the Delaware and Lchigh, the Highlands of the Hadson, the Grcen Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New...ranges or sierras, nature still reigns in indomitable wildnesa; thcir rocky ridges, their rugged elefts and denies, tcem with magnifieent vegetation. Here... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1854 - 480 pages
...and, rising into numerous hills and ridges, they finally assume the character of mountainranges, as in the Green Mountains of Vermont and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Devonian metamorphic. — The altered rocks of the age of the Chemung and Portage groups of New York,... | |
| George William Fitch - 1856 - 280 pages
...consists of numerous parallel ridges separated by longitudinal valleys/ The northeastern section embraces the Green Mountains of Vermont and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The Adirondack Mountains, which extend through the northern part of New York to the west of Lake Champlain,... | |
| Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson - 1860 - 656 pages
...groups of mountains would be more correctly designated "geographical dependencies of the system." Thus, the Green Mountains of Vermont and the White Mountains of New Hampshire are described as belonging to this range. They are crystalline in structure, and some of their peaks... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1866 - 578 pages
...gneiss and granitic rocks, like the equivalent deposits in Scandinavia and the North-west of Scotland. The Green Mountains of Vermont and the White Mountains of New Hampshire are composed of altered Silurian rocks.* 18. SILURIAN FOSSILS : PLANT-REMAINS. — The remains of about... | |
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