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... Mountains in Vermont , also forest - clothed , form a high spine up the State , and are a background to the towns in the plains . The White Mountains in New Hampshire rear their naked granite summits above timber ; they are peaked mountains ...
... Mountains in Vermont , also forest - clothed , form a high spine up the State , and are a background to the towns in the plains . The White Mountains in New Hampshire rear their naked granite summits above timber ; they are peaked mountains ...
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... mountains , capped , perhaps , with snow . You are reaching the Rockies ! The Rocky Mountains have no foothills . The prairie rises gradu- ally 5,000 feet from the Mississippi River , rolling a bit at the last , and ends smash against ...
... mountains , capped , perhaps , with snow . You are reaching the Rockies ! The Rocky Mountains have no foothills . The prairie rises gradu- ally 5,000 feet from the Mississippi River , rolling a bit at the last , and ends smash against ...
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... mountains , golden sunsets , and a train crawling across its immensity like a tiny worm . Here in southern California the coast range reaches 10,000 feet or more , rising directly from sea level , and all the agricultural wealth and ...
... mountains , golden sunsets , and a train crawling across its immensity like a tiny worm . Here in southern California the coast range reaches 10,000 feet or more , rising directly from sea level , and all the agricultural wealth and ...
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