NEW ENGLAND GAZETTEER.

Jeremiah Smith, IS13—1815. William Merchant Richardson, 181(1—

1837. Joel Parker, 1838—

New Hampshire is divided into eight counties, as follows:—

New Hampshire is more mountainous than any of her sister states, yet
she boasts of large quantities of luxuriant intervale. Her high lands
produce food for cattle of peculiar sweetness ; and no where can be found
the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, united, in greater
abundance: cattle and wool are its principal staples. This state may be
said to be the mother of New England, rivers. The Connecticut, Mer-
rimack, Saco, Androscoggin and Piscataqua, receive most of their waters
from the high lands of New Hampshire: while the former washes the
western boundary of the state 163 miles, the Merrimack pierces its cen-
tre, and the Piscataqua forms the beautiful harbor of Portsmouth, a depot
of the American navy.

These majestic rivers, with their tributary streams afford this state an
immense water power, of which manufacturers, with large capitals, avail
themselves.

The largest collection of water in the state is Lake Winnepisiogee,
(pronounced Win-ne-pe-sok'-e.) It is one of the most varied and beau-
tiful sheets of watei* on the American continent. Lakes Connecticut,
Ossipee, Umbagog, Squam, Sunapee, and Massabesick, are large collec-
tions of water, and abound with fish and fowl.

New Hampshire is frequently called the Granite State, from the vast
quantities of that rock found within its territory. The granite is of a su-
perior quality, and much of it is quarried and transported to other states.
The geological structure of the state is highly interesting. Iron and cop-
per ore and plumbago, of excellent qualities, are found; and coal and
other valuable minerals are supposed to exist.

This state is also.called the Switzerland of .America, on account of
the salubrity of its climate; its wild and picturesque landscapes; its
lakes and rapid streams. The celebrated White Mountains, in the north-