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 Moosilauke.

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��narrow-fissnre, through which its wa- grecs, which comes laughing, leaping,

ters [ilunge, is known as the Indian's tumbling into a great basin at its

leap. Carrigain's map, 181 G, is the foot. A huge cliff, a hundred feet

first to show this stream, and gives it high from its brink, looks down on

as ''Mooseliiliock Br." Nearly all the the failing watei'S.

state maps follow this spelling, until One of Jeffrey's early maps spells

about 1870, when Hitchcock's geolog- the name of this stream ''Ammonoo-

ical maps give it as ^'Moosilauke suck."

brook." Comstock & Clines's County Matthew Patten, in his diary, 1 764,

Atlas, 1877, also calls it the same; spells it two ways, — "Amunoosuck"

��and so do all the maps of the Appa- lacliian Mountain Club. A branch

��and "•Amunuzsuck."

Wm. Faddeu, successor to Jeffrey,

��of this stream flows from the meadow on his map of New York, 1776, spells in Kinsman notch.* The name it "Amanusack."

��"Moosilauke brook" comes from the mountain on which the stream origin- ates.

��3. The Wild Ammoxoosuc.

This stream, a branch of the Am- monoosuc, sometimes called the Swift- water, is marked on the maps as flow- ing from the meadow in Kinsman notch ; but the farthest head thereof

��The word Ammonoosuc, according to Judge Potter, is from the Indian words iiatnaos (a fish), and oq or auke (a place), and means fish-place.

4. Oliverian River.

The " Long Ridge" connects the South Peak to the high crest of Moosilauke. It is a great rock that arches its huge back in a Ions: curve is just west of the Tip-Top House on up to heaven. From its apex, where the high crest. The rain that falls on the view is grandest, the Oliverian the roof of the old, moss-grown stone starts west on its journey to the Con- house goes from the east side by the necticut. It slides, hisses, and tum- river Merrimack to the ocean ; from bles down the sharp mountain side, the west side by the Connecticut to more than a mile, passes Beaver Long Island Sound. This west side pond, whose outlet flows away north brook is known as Tunnel stream, to the Ammonoosuc, and, after it re- and has four beautiful cascades, — one ceives a branch that comes from be- that tumbles dovvn the great Tunnel tvveen Mt. Clough and Owl's Head, gorge more than two hundred feet, tumbles over a ledge, plump down, and one that leaps at a bound twenty some fifteen feet, on to the rocks feet into the pool below^. Little Tun- below.

nel stream, another branch, rises in Capt. Peter Powers mentions it as the ravine between the high crest and a large stream at its mouth, that Mt. Blue. It has nine cascades, — troubled his men to cross when he one more than two hundred and fifty marched into the northern wilderness feet high, at a slope of seventy de- in 1754.

♦This notch, clove through the mountains 300 feet deeper than either the White or the Franconia notch, wus called Kinsman notch Irom a Mr. Kinsman, one of the arly settlers Djuf Wildw^v d, a post- office iu Uralton Co. Mt. Kinsman, also, was so called from the same settler.

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