The New International Encyclopædia/Washington, Mount

WASHINGTON, Mount. The highest peak of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, and, with the exception of a number of peaks in North Carolina and Tennessee, the highest point in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains (Map: New Hampshire, J 4). It rises from the Presidential Range near the centre of the White Mountain group, east of the Crawford Notch, and has an altitude of 6293 feet. It is composed chiefly of granite; its western slope is steep, and on the north and east it is broken by deep gorges. The lower slopes are covered with forest, but the summit is bare and rocky. A carriage-road and a rack-and-pinion railroad, the latter completed in 1869, ascend to the summit, which commands a magnificent view, and on which a hotel and a United States meteorological station are situated.