| Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson - Allegheny Mountains - 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 - Geology - 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... | |
| Washington Irving - Spain - 1866 - 494 pages
...Cumberland Mountains, the Blue Ridge, the Alleghanies, the Delaware and Lehigh, the Highlands of the Hudson, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In many of these vast ranges or sierras, Nature still reigns in indomitable wildness ; their rocky... | |
| Washington Irving - Spain - 1867 - 496 pages
...Cumberland Mountains, the Blue Ridge, the Alleghanies, the Delaware and Lehigh, the Highlands of the Hudson, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In many of these vast ranges or sierras, Nature still reigns in indomitable wildness ; their rocky... | |
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1867 - 540 pages
...Cumberland Mountains, the Blue Eidge, the Alleghanies, the Delaware and Lehigh, the Highlands of the Hudson, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In many of these vast ranges or sierras, Nature still reigns in indomitable wildness; their rocky ridges,... | |
| George William Fitch - Physical geography - 1867 - 142 pages
...lie the gold regions of California. 77. The Apalachian or Alleghany ranges constitute the third grgat mountain system of North America. They extend along...Alleghanies, lie the Catskill Mountains, which are terminated on the north by the valley »f the Mohawk, and on the east by the Hudson River. WHITE MOUNTAINS... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1872 - 540 pages
...distinct regions of unlike crystalline schists. These are the Adirondacks to the west of Lake Champlain, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The lithological and mineralogical differences between the rocks of these three regions are such as to... | |
| Washington Irving - 1869 - 504 pages
...Cumberland Mountains, the Blue Ridge, the Alleghanies, the Delaware and Lchigh, the Highlands of the Hudson, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In many of these vast ranges or sierras, Nature still reigns in indomitable wildness; their rocky ridges,... | |
| John Wells Foster - History - 1869 - 480 pages
...embracing the Unaka or Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, the Blue Ridge of Virginia and Pennsylvania, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, receive the generic name of Appalachian Chain; while that portion characterized br the coal-bearing... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 848 pages
...distinct regions of unlike crystalline schists. These are the Adirondacks to the west of Lake Champlain, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The lithological and mineralogical differences between the rocks of these three regions are such as to... | |
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