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History of the town of Candia, Rockingham County, N.H.
History of the town of Candia Rockingham County NH Author:Browne George Waldo 1851-1930 pub Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. TOPOGRAPHY. Caxdia is situated in Rockingham County in the State of New Hampshire. It is in 43 degrees 8 minutes north latitude, in 71 degrees and... more » 18 minutes west longitude from Greenwich. The town is bounded north by Deerfield, east by Raymond, south by Chester and Auburn, and west by Hooksett. It is ten miles northeast from Manchester, eighteen miles southeast from Concord, the capital of the state, thirty-one miles west from-Portsmouth, fifty-five miles from Boston, two hundred and fifty-six miles from New York and five hundred and eight miles from the city of Washington. The geographical center of the town is on the old William Duncan place, South Road, now owned by George Brown. The exact spot is within a few rods of Mr. Brown's residence. Its area is above 17,744 acres, or more than 27 square miles. Geology. The majority of the most eminent geologists agree to the following propositions: That the earth was once a mass of molten matter and that, while whirling in its orbit around the sun, its surface became gradually cooled, until at last it became a granite crust or shell, and covered the earth as an egg is covered by its shell; that this shell, which was thin at first, became thicker and thicker as the process of cooling went on, until now it is supposed to be from forty to sixty miles from the surface down to the liquid mass of heated matter below; that as the earth cooled its shell contracted and wrinkled, like the skin ofabaked apple, causing great elevations in some places and depressions in others, and the elevations became mountains while the depressions became the valleys and the great beds of the ocean ; that there have been many of these great convulsions upon the earth and that its surface has been tilted up at various times; that who...« less