Methods and AIDS in Geography; For the Use of Teachers and Normal Schools

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...the top of Mount Washington early the next morning, spend several hours "among the clouds," and return to Boston in the afternoon and evening. From the town of Jefferson a splendid view of the high mountains on each side of Washington, called the " Presidential Range," is obtained. See pictures in Harper's, Swinton's, and Warren's. Charles D. Warner in his article "On Horseback," in the August Atlantic, 1885, says in reference to the Roan Mountains, a part of the Black Mountains, in the north-western part of North Carolina: --"The surface of Roan is uneven, and has no culminating peak like Mount Washington. The surface of the mountains is pebbly, but few'rocks crop out; no ledges of any size are seen except at a distance from the hotel, and the mountains lack that savage, unsubduable aspect which the White Hills of New Hampshire have. It was difficult to realize that we were six thousand feet above the level of the-sea. These mountains are tree-covered. They get the name Black from the balsams which cover the summits. The black balsam is neither a cheerful nor picturesque tree. The naked granite rocks in sun and shower are more cheerful; but, to many, this clothing of verdure.is most restful and pleasing. The rock here is a sort of sand or pudding stone. There are none of the great gorges and awful abysses of the White Mountains, few precipices and jutting crags. Mica and iron are taken out." Mountains of North Carolina.--Alleghany means "endless." The name Appalachian was first applied by De Soto. Fifty-seven peaks in the western part of North Carolina are over six thousand feet high. The Blue Ridge is the water-shed of this system in this State, as not a river severs it. This statement is not true in referen...