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NEW HAMPSHIRE. |
THE State of New
Hampshire lies between Maine and
Vermont, with Massachusetts on
the South, a wilderness fronting
on Canada and the beaches facing
the Atlantic Ocean. |
The
English sailor, Martin Pring,
explored the coast in 1603,
followed by Champlain and Captain
John Smith. The first settlements
were made by adventurous
fishermen and traders, sent out
by the English patron, at Cocheco
(Dover), and Little Harbor (near
Portsmouth), in 1623. The colony
suffered from merciless Indian
forays after King Philip's war.
Hundreds of settlers were slain,
and those who escaped passed into
a dreary captivity in Canada. New
Hampshire is one of the original
thirteen States, and it sent
18,289 soldiers into the
Revolutionary War. The State is
famous for its mountains, lakes
and rivers. The magnificent
scenery of the highland country
has, for generations, been
admired by tourists from all
parts of the world. Mount
Washington, 6,293 feet high, is
the highest peak on the Atlantic
Coast. In the Franconia Notch the
famous Profile, a massive stone
face forty feet high, has figured
in New England Art and Literature
for nearly a century. |
An
extensive and varied system of
lakes, which, in wooded islets,
and mirroring the crests of
famous mountains, make one of the
foremost beauties of the State.
The most noted is Lake
Winnepesaukee, covering
seventy-two square miles and
adorned by 274 islands. The
Connecticut River, New England's
foremost stream, rises in a group
of lakelets near the Canadian
frontier, and runs south for 450
miles through a valley of
extraordinary beauty. |
ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Murder
of Major Waldron, 1689; Recruits
for the Continental
Army crossing the White
Mountains; Profile, White
Mountains. |
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