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Mount Washington

a peak of the White Mountains, in Coos co., N. H.; about 85 miles N. by E. of Concord; height, 6,285 feet above sea-level, being not only the culmination of the White Mountains, but the highest land in New England. The summit is reached by a railroad.

MT. WILSON SOLAR OBSERVA- TORY, near Pasadena, Cal., at an elevation of 5,886 feet. It was built in 1904, not only the culmination of the White Mountains, but the highest land in New servatory, by the Carnegie Foundation, and contains a Snow horizontal tele body. The harvest mouse is very small, reddish-gray above, white underneath, is larger; and has the tail shorter than the body. The harvest mouse is very small, the body being colored above like a squir- rel; beneath it is white, with a line be- tween the colors. By shrew mouse is meant the common shrew, sorex vulgaris; the short-tailed field mouse is arvicola rel; beneath it is white, with a line between the colors. By shrew mouse is meant the common shrew, sorex vulgaris; the short-tailed field mouse is arvicola agrestis.

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