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In New Hampshire there are mountains called the White Mountains, and one of these White Mountains, named after our First President, is Mount Washington. It is the highest mountain in this part of the country, and just because it is so high many people like to climb it. Some people are like that. In Vermont, which means “green mountain,” there are the Green Mountains, not as high as the White Mountains, but very lovely. All along the New England coast are places where people go to spend the summer, because this part of the country is so cool while the rest of the country is so hot.

But the thing that New England is proudest of is its schools and colleges. In their mills they make Things, in their schools and colleges they make Men. Two of the most noted colleges in the country are in New England—Yale is in Connecticut and Harvard is in Massachusetts. Harvard is the oldest college in the United States.

Sticking out from Massachusetts like a long, bent finger, as if beckoning to people across the water to come to Massachusetts, is a piece of land called Cape Cod. It was named in honor of the codfish, because codfish are so plentiful in those waters, and they are caught and dried in great quantities and shipped everywhere.

The finger of Cape Cod has beckoned to people of other lands than England. People who speak strange languages have come to New England to work in factories and mills, so that now almost one quarter of the people in New England are not from England; they are not Yankees.

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在新罕布什尔州有一些山叫做怀特山脉，其中有一座山是以美国第一任总统命名的，叫“华盛顿山”。它是这一地区最高的山，正因为它很高，很多人都喜欢去爬这座山。有些人就是爱好登山。佛蒙特州的名字意思是“绿色的山”，佛蒙特州内有座格林山，还真是“绿色的山”[2]，格林山不像怀特山脉那么高，但风景很美。新英格兰沿海地区是避暑胜地，因为当其他地区都很炎热的时候，这一地区却非常的凉爽。

但是新英格兰最引以为傲的是它的学校和大学。在工厂里，他们生产物品，在学校和大学里，他们培养人才。全美最知名的大学中有两所就在新英格兰——位于康涅狄格州的耶鲁大学和位于马萨诸塞州的哈佛大学。哈佛大学是美国最古老的大学。

马萨诸塞州沿海有块地方伸向海洋，像根长长的弯曲的手指，好像在召唤人们越过海洋到马萨诸塞州来，那就是科德角半岛。因这里盛产鳕鱼而起的名字[3]，当地海域鳕鱼资源丰富，人们捕捞大量的鳕鱼，晒干后运往各地。

除了英国人以外，科德角还召唤其他地方的人。说着各种奇怪语言的人来到了新英格兰的工厂和作坊工作，因此现在几乎有四分之一的新英格兰人并不是来自英格兰，他们不是扬基人，也就是说不能算是“新英格兰人”。