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Show Distinctive Setting Adds to New Hampshire's Charm New Hampshire's natural setting adds greatly to Its charm. While it usually is considered a mountainous mountain-ous state and Justly o its eastern slope extends in gently rolling inclines in-clines southeastward to the Atlantic. Atlan-tic. Five sandy leaches are features fea-tures of New Hampshire's 18 miles j of seashore I But New Hampshire is remembered remem-bered longrst for its mountains and valleys, forest roads, remote farms, old villages and white-painted houses. The White mountains are storied mountains, long loved and sought by man. Other distinctive sights In New Hampshire are its hundreds or ponds, its thousands of granite ledges, its expanding forests. for-ests. Its industries and Its green landscapes. The mountain region has few inhabitants in-habitants except in summer. In the lakes district, an agricultural area, are the industrial cities of Laconlt and North Conway. Connecticut ; valley, embracing three-tenths ol the state, contains New Hampshire'i chief agricultural section and many 1 Industries, with Merrimack valley a close second In agriculture and greater in industry. j The eastern slope is largely ngn ' cultural, but contains the industri. I cities of Rochester. Somerswonf nnd Dover. I |