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White Mountains

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White Mountains

Glaciated mountain range in New Hampshire, USA. Much of the area is high plateau country, from which rises the Presidential range culminating in Mount Washington (1,917 m/6,288 ft), the highest mountain in northeastern USA. The White Mountains are a northerly continuation of the Appalachian Mountains. Tourism (particularly winter sports) and timber-processing are important.

The highest peaks are all named after US presidents. Much of the range is contained within the White Mountains national forest. Glaciation produced the Old Man of the Mountains at Franconia Notch, a crag (365 m/1,200 ft) that gives the appearance of a face.



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A third, being encamped on a hunting expedition full forty miles south of the White Mountains, awoke at midnight, and beheld the Great Carbuncle gleaming like a meteor, so that the shadows of the trees fell backward from it.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Yes, Vancouver's about as far as any vessel need want to go; and then I have caught seals off the coast of Labrador, and walked my way through the raspberry plains at the back of the White Mountains.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess?
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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