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GREENHOUSE

Volume 11 · 67 words · 1860 Edition

or Conservatory. See Horticulture.

GREEN MOUNTAINS, a mountain range of North America, commencing near New Haven in Connecticut, and extending through Massachusetts and Vermont into Canada. It attains its greatest elevation in Vermont, to which it gives name (verts monts, i.e., green mountains). Mansfield North Peak, the culminating point of these mountains, rises to the height of about 4300 feet above the level of the sea.

GREENLAND.