dcr
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These 2 well-known mountains in Sandwich are conjoined like Siamese twins. They form the SE flank of the easterly end of the famous Sandwich Notch Road, once a major commercial thoroughfare during NH's early agricultural days - great herds of farm animals were driven from northern NH and Vermont to markets on the seacoast across that road, which had a thriving community of more than 60 homes along it then (only 2 are now left). This shot was taken from Rt 113 in Sandwich, across a communal beaver bog - careful examination will reveal at least 3 beaver lodges frozen in the ice - the beavers will spend a long time in an underwater world, locked in by ice - they must leave the lodges regularly to access their food stores, which are branches driven into the muddy bottom of the pond by the beavers when the weather was good. Israel, at the right, is the larger of the two peaks.
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