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COUNTIES OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

CHAPTER IV.

A statistical summary of the counties and State, pertaining to their geograph-
ical position, value of their manufactories, farm productions, railroads,
newspapers, national banks, savings banks, insurance, post-offices &c.

ROCKINGHAM.

This county has the only territory which borders on the Atlan-
tic Ocean, it being about seventeen miles in extent. It is hounded
north by Strafford County, east by the Atlantic, from the mouth
of the Piscataqua to the line of Massachusetts, south by Massachu-
setts, and west by Hillsborough and Merrimack Counties.

Rivers. The principal rivers are Piscataqua, Lamprey, Squam-
scot, Pawtuckaway and Spiggot. The total horse water power
now used is 3,364.

Mountains. Pawtuckaway, in Nottingham and Deerfield, and
Saddleback, in Deerfield and Northwood are the principal ele-
vations.

Area. There are thirty-eight towns in the County, of which
there were incorporated—in the reign of Charles I., two; in the
reign of Charles II., one; in the reign of William and Mary, two ;
two in the reign of Queen Anne; seven, George I.; thirteen,
George II.; eight in the reign of George III.; and three by New-
Hampshire. It was incorporated, March 19, 1771, and named in
honor of Charles Watson Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham,
by Governor Benning Wentworth. Its greatest length is thirty-
four miles; greatest breadth, thirty miles. Shire towns, Exeter
and Portsmouth.

Agriculture. With the exception of Strafford County, the surface
is less broken than that of any county in the State, and much of the
land is well adapted to the raising of corn, oats, and hay, but the
rust injures the wheat. In 1870, there were produced 18,596 bush-
els wheat, 165,682 bushels corn, 72,976 bushels oats and barley,

484,000 bushels potatoes. Orchard productions, $ 126,000.    745,