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The Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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Capt. Partridge and Professor Marsh led a group of students from Norwich, Dartmouth, and Columbia colleges on an eight-day foot excursion to the White Mountains starting August 23, marching 180 miles and encamping on New-England's highest land. Joined by Professor Dana, Dr. Norris, and others to total 28, the trip aimed to teach perseverance, endure hardships, and measure mountain altitudes, correcting prior overestimations from Partridge's 1816 visit.
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Excursion on the White Mountains.-Capt. PARTRIDGE and Professor MARSH, accompanied by eight of the students at the Norwich seminary, two students of Dartmouth and one from Columbia college, N. Y. left Norwich on the 23d August, on foot, and were absent eight days, during which they marched 180 miles, and encamped one night on the highest land of New-England. In this excursion, they were joined by Professor Dana, of the Dartmouth Medical Institution, Dr. Norris, of the U. S. navy, and other gentlemen, so that the party on the mountain amounted in the whole to 28. The object of Capt. P. in making this excursion, during the vacation of his seminary, was to inure his pupils to those hardships, the practice of which may be necessary in after life; to teach them that the summit of fame is not to be attained, but at the expense of perseverance and labour, as well as to make those observations which shall ascertain the correct altitude of these high grounds.
Capt. P. went upon these mountains in 1816, and we believe was the first to ascertain that their height had been overrated.
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White Mountains
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23d August
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marched 180 miles over eight days, encamped on the highest land of new-england, party totaled 28, ascertained correct altitude of mountains which had been overrated.
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Capt. Partridge and Professor Marsh, with students from Norwich seminary, Dartmouth, and Columbia college, N.Y., left Norwich on foot for an eight-day excursion to the White Mountains, joined by Professor Dana of Dartmouth Medical Institution, Dr. Norris of the U.S. navy, and others. The purpose was to inure pupils to hardships necessary in after life, teach perseverance and labour for attaining fame, and make observations to determine the correct altitude of the high grounds. Capt. Partridge had visited the mountains in 1816 and was the first to ascertain their height had been overrated.