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.

ITmS SOUR CE AND ITS TRIB UTARIES.
Fangs or lagoons of the lake extend into this town long distances
jn various directions, which are a paradise for pickerel, making this
one of the best places for summer pickerel fishing in the State.
Splendid views are obtained from many points in Tuftonborough, of
scenery as wild, romantic and diversified as any in New Hampshire,
though less extensive. From many of the eminences the prospect
is charming; lagoons and estuaries of the great lake creeping quietly
through narrow channels, hidden by luxuriant foliage, now reappear
behind the intervening hills, and expand into broad sheets of water,
or, following the natural depressions of the surface, take strange, fantastic shapes, presenting the appearance of an extensive system of
ponds, with the great lake in the background stretching away to the
south until lost to view among the numerous islands.
Meredith is on the west side of Lake Winnipesaukee. Meredith
Village is beautifully and pleasantly located on a brook, which is the
outlet of Goose or Measley Pond, which here falls into the lake.
The soil is excellent, and few towns in the State excel it in the
extent and variety of agricultural productions.
The road from Laconia to Centre Harbor runs principally through
the town, and is a delightful drive; throughout the whole distance it
follows the trend of the lake, which on the right stretches far away
among the green islands until it is shut out from view by the luxuriance
of their foliage; while on the other hand the neat farm-houses, the
broad fields of corn and waving grain, and mowing-fields, the flocks
ant herds grazing on the green hill-sides, the great mountains
towering up in all the surrounding background, the graceful steamers
threading the mazy labyrinths among the isles, "walking the waters
like a thing of life," while the gentle zephyrs lightly ripple the
broad surface of the lake, - all combined in one grand sweep of the
vision over the surrounding country, affords a scene which all can
enjoy, but none describe.
Just here is the famous ahquedauken, or weirs, where the Indians
took their food from the countless myriads of shad which crowded
annually to and from the lake, the outlet, the Winnipesaukee River.
Dudley Leavitt, the celebrated "Old Farmer's Almanac" maker,
lived and died in this town.
Sanbornton is a smart, thrifty town, situated on the Great Bay, or
large body of water which receives and discharges the Winnipesaukee,
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