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Show Dislinctivc Setting Fld.s to New Hampshire's CStarm New Hampshire's natural setting adds greatly to its charm. While it usually is considered a mountainous mountain-ous state and justly so its eastern slope extends in gently rolling inclines in-clines southeastward to the Atlantic. Atlan-tic. Five sandy beaches are features fea-tures of Now Hampshire's 18 miles of seashore. But New Hampshire is remembered remem-bered longest for its mountains and "alleys, 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 of 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 Laconis and North Conway. Connecticut valley, embracing three-tenths ol the state, contains New Hampshire'i chief agricultural section and many industries, with Merrimack valley a close second in agriculture and greater in industry. The eastern slope is largely agri' cultural, but contains the industri.-cities industri.-cities of Rochester, SomersworU and Dover. |
