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| | Appalachian Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The whole system may be divided into three great sections: the Northern, from Newfoundland to the Hudson river; the Central, from the Hudson Valley to that of New River (Great Kanawha), in Virginia and West Virginia; and the Southern, from New River onwards. |
 | | In New Hampshire, many summits rise above 4000 feet, including Mount Washington in the White Mountains (6298 ft.), Adams (5805), Jefferson (5725), Clay (5554), Monroe (5390), Madison (5380), and Lafayette (5269). |
 | | Only by way of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys, and round about the southern termination of the system were there easy routes to the interior of the country, and these were long closed by hostile aborigines, French colonists to the north and Spanish colonists to the south. |
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