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 concealed and wet with the waves and foam which dashed on them, and communicating by signs amid the roar of the rapids."

It was in this same tour with Channing that they climbed to the top of Uncannunuc, and saw the hills described in this omitted passage:

"Far in the East is seen Agamenticus Hill, in Maine, four miles from the sea, a noted landmark for sailors, on which Saint Aspenquid is said to have died in 1682, whose funeral was celebrated by the Indians 'by the sacrifice of 6,711 wild animals;' and, besides the more southern New Hampshire hills, Gunstock and Kearsarge in the north; and further yet some dim peaks which perhaps are the White Mountains themselves. A few miles further west is Joe English Hill in New Boston, which, seen from the road in Bedford, is a dark-looking eminence, very abrupt on one side, and shaped like a whale. Joe English was an Indian, grandson of Mascononomet of Agawam (Ipswich) who fought on the side of the whites, and of whose exploits in their behalf many stories are told. He was finally shot by his own race in 1706, [xxiv]