History of Sanbornton, New Hampshire . * the travelled roads, would prove about one fifth greater. The positions of the mountains are indicated, at least approximately,by the several figures (or the central point of each double figure),having been assigned with care, both as seen from Parsonage Hill,and ccdculated upon the new State map of New Hampshire (1878).Those eminences which cannot be actually seen from Parsonage Hill,on account of intervening woods or highlands, but only from certainneighboring and other heights in town, are indicated by (*). Thoseeminences which do not bound the horiz
History of Sanbornton, New Hampshire . * the travelled roads, would prove about one fifth greater. The positions of the mountains are indicated, at least approximately,by the several figures (or the central point of each double figure),having been assigned with care, both as seen from Parsonage Hill,and ccdculated upon the new State map of New Hampshire (1878).Those eminences which cannot be actually seen from Parsonage Hill,on account of intervening woods or highlands, but only from certainneighboring and other heights in town, are indicated by (*). Thoseeminences which do not bound the horizon, wholly or in part, areindicated by (f)- The altitudes are given in feet directly after thenames; those in larger figures are according to Prof. Hitchcock, inhis State Survey; the others are from older estimates, or estimatesexpressly made for this table from the State map. It will be seen NATURAL FEATURES. MOUNTAINS. 9 that only one of these catalogued mountains, as viewed from Sanborn-ton, is rated below 1,000 feet. N. 1 LaFayette 6,259 2 Liberty (?) f 4,500 3 Flume Mt 4,500 4 Welch. Mt. *t 3,500 5 Fisher* 3,900 6 Tecumseh * 4,000 7 Black Mt 4,050 8 Whiteface 4,007 9 Passaconaway 4,200 10 Wonalancet 2,000 11 Paugus 3,200 12 Chocorua 3,540 13 Israelf 2,500 14 Tripyraniid 4,100 15 Red Hill f 2,038 16 Pequawket 3,251 17 Ossipee 2,361 18 Green Mt 1,700 19 Prospect 1,000 20 2,062 38 21 2,394 39 22 1,479 40 23 Tumble-Down 41 Dick (?) 1,200 42 24 Peaked Hill 1,400 43 25 1,515 44 26 1,341 45 27 1,590 28 1,333 46 29 1,100 47 30 Lyndeboro Hills. 1,500 48 31 7S3 49 32 Grand Monadnock 3,718 50 33 Pack Monadnock. 2,289 51 34 CrotchedMt 2,066 52 35 1,420 53 36 Mink Hills 1,628 54 37 2,943 Lovewells Mt.*.. 2,487 Bald Sunapee .... 2,683 Ragged Mt 2,256 Sargents Mt 1,500 Mt. Pleasant (?).. 1,300 HoytHill(?)(est.) 2,700 Periwig f 1,600 Sal-mon Brook 2,300 Cardigan 3,156 Smarts Mt.*(est.) 2,500 Bridgewater Hills 1,700 Plymouth Mt 1,900 Stinson 2,707 Carr Mt 3,522 Moosilauk
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