The Merrimack River: its source and its tributaries. Embracing a history of manufactures, and of the towns along its course; their geography, topography, and products, with a description of the magnificent natural scenery about its upper waters./ By J. W. Meader.

ITS SOURCE AVD ITS TRIBUTARIES.
(red years under the beneficent influence of civilization has made it
blossom like the rose. Where the fearful war-whoop resounded from
crag to cliff. waking the echoes of the dismal forest, and the prowlillng wolf howled a dire homesickness to the benighted and solitary
forest ranger. and the splash of the paddle as the dexterous red man
"feathered his oar." or the plunge of the giganitic moose as he laved
his iuwieldy bulk in the tranquil waters of the lake, or the loud scream
of the loon as it called to its mate across the tranquil bosom of its
waters, where sounds like these, and only such as these, were heard.
the iron horse now tears along, bearing his endless trains of humanity
and merch.andise, the pleasant sounds of spindle, loom, and anvil are
heard through,11 the day; and on the very spot where stood the red
man's wigwam -a rude, uncomfortable hovel- are flourishing villages of comfortable and elegant dwelling,s, fine stores, large and con.
venient workshops, and an intelligent, industrious, enterprising, and
thrifty population. W'hat has wrought this great change? Precisely
the same generous earth exists that grew the Indian's scanty vegetable
products; the same pellucid waters spread out like a broad mirror and
roll their never-ending tide down to the unsated ocean; the same
mountains, towering high, moody, and silent, stand guard and sentiinel around: the same translucent atmosphere pervades all things and
places, and above all the same genital sun rolls on, as it has for numberless centuries, warming and fructifying; and the seasons come in
turn as they have always done. Then why this change? Has there
be& a new dispensation of providential favors? No; it is the superior
organization, mental and physical, of the Caucasian race. Perseverance, native skill. untiring industry, handicraft, cunning, under intelligent direction, and, above all, the genius of the white man's government,
- liblerty restrained by law that it may not degenerate into lawlessness and license,- these are the predominating and pre-eminent causes
of the immneasurable difference between the red man and the white.
On leaving the lake, Lake Village, an enterprising and flourishing village in the town of Guilford, is reached at a short distance
from the foot of the lake. Possibly this observation may be incorrect; for, although the outlet of the lake proper is a river most indisputably, having all the characteristics, a rapid and urncInging
current and a pebbly bottom, confined to a channel, and having, also,
the legal status of a river; yet a little further down it debouches
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