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 ANVD ITS TrIBUTARIES.
several lines of mountain travel, radiating from Boston and concentrating here, it being the starting-point for all the stages from the
lake to the mountain region.
During the summer the tide of mountain travel is at its flood on
this route, and it is estimated that from one thousand to twelve hu, —
tlred per week are carried both ways in stages.
Attracted by the famed( and romantic beauty of the scenery along
this route, the tourist and comfort seeker, who possess a taste for the
grand and beautiful in nature, will not fail to either go or return by
this route, and thus feast their hig,ecr sense on the gorgeous panorama that stretches from the foot of the lake to the summit of Mount
VWashington. Though sometimes encolmpassed by heat, dust, and
discomfort, the compensation is ample, the satisfaction complete.
Centre Ilarbor is widely known as a summer resort. Travellers
reach this place, from New York, via Sou(nd, Norwich, Worcester,
Nashua, Concord, and the Weirs. From this point, a short steamboat ride, unequalled for the variety and splendor of natural scenery,
and Centre Harbor is reached. From Boston, via Lowell, Lawrence, Concord, and the Weirs, or Portsmouth, Dover, Cochecho
Railroad, to Alton Bay; thence, by steamboat, to Wolfboro' and
Centre Harbor. The sttage road is wonderfully level a large share
of the way; still there are some sharp hills which tax the team and
tire the passengers, but cool, refreshing zephyrs fan the cheek, and
the mind is so engrossed with the wild and remarkable scenery, that
the journey is robbed of all toil, and is regarded as a delightful
excursion. The route lies through Moultonblorough, around the
immediate base of Red IHill, - so called, from its appearance at a
distance.
On the south side of Ossipee Mountain, which extends into this
town, there is a cool and copious spring, impregnated with sulphur
and iron. Near the summit of the mountain is a remarkable spring.
fifteen feet in diameter, which emits a dozen jets of water to the
height of two feet, containing small quantities of fine white sand.
and discharges a considerable brook; receiving many tributaries, it
becomes, ini the course of a' mile and a half, a foaming mountain
torrent. At that distance from the spring, and not far from Sulphur
Spring, it breaks into a: broad and furious cascade for fifty feet, then
takes a perpendicular plunge of seventy feet.
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