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.

1TS SOUI?CE A-VD ITS TRIPBUTARIES.
appall the stoutest heart, determined, regardless of expense, in trials,
privations, and hardships, to provide a sustenance, establish a home,
and erect a sovereign State. WVhat these self-reliant and independent Scotch-Irish, and English, and their descendants have achieved,
history and geography fully explain, for they have left their impress
on every page of the one and every parallel of the other.
It has been said in contempt or derision by some thoughtless,
envious, or malicious person, that New Hampshire was a good State
to emigrate from. This would-be aspersion is rather a credit than
otherwise, as it simply signifies that the starving Josephs of other
States less productive may confidently journey hither for a generous
supply of whllolesome intellectual food. When a native of good ability
and intelligence, thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the State,
emigrates, carrying with him and adhering to those sound principles
which his State and his education have endowed him with, he will generally, in any sphere of life, ultimately achieve success, andl in as far
as deserved fame and prosperity attend them, they will, of course,
reflct honor and credit on the mother State.
This as a rule is proved and demonstrated by the slur referred to.
Taking, an observation across the continent, it will be seen that the
leading men of many States, men of mark and of note, justly claim
New IHampshire as their fatherland. Statesmen, lawgivers, orators,
journalists, merchants, conspicuous and successful, are seen on every
hand, an ornament and a blessing to the community of their adoption', and a source of pride to those who have furnished a member who
is equally as necessary to them as ornamental.
Scarcely a town in the State but boasts of some famous native who
now occupies an exalted position in another State. Not unlfrequently
many of these wandering sons, when the care and labor of the busy
)utside world will allow, revisit their early homes to renew and
refresh their thirsty spirits, and drink in the old familiar scenes of
chlildhlood, and live over again for a brief period those old affections
of by-gone times; cooling the heated brain and relaxing the overwrought nerves in the quiet retreat, fanned by the same refreshing
breezes, shaded by the same grand old trees; to take a draught from
the same old oaken bucket; and, looking through the wide rooms, stop
before the quaint old portraits of departed ancestors; or walk through
the silent aisles of that peaceful and quiet neighborhood where the
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