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TWICE recently it has been mentioned in your columns that Mount Washington in New England attains the height of 10,000 ft. If it were so its summit, for nearly 2,000 ft., would be clothed with perpetual snow. The most careful measurements—those of Prof. Guyot—give the height of the mountain as 6,288 ft.
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SCUDDER, S. Mount Washington. Nature 3, 487 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003487d0
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