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 AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
out suspicion, and, ranging themselves on either side of the log, they
put their hands into the opening where it was partially riven by the
entering wedge, to assist with all their force in pulling it asunder,
when Lovewell suddenly striking out the wedge, the fissure closed
up, and they were all securely caught in this novel man-trap. Lovewell then despatched them at his leisure, scalped them scientifically,
and continued his labor.
Besides the liberal provision for common schools, Tubbs' Union
Academy, a flourishing educational institution, supplies its pupils
with a high order of instruction.
Warner is thle next town west of Boscawen, and lies immediately
at the base of Kearsarge Mountain. It was granted by Massachusetts, to Deacon Thomas Stevens and sixty-two others, in 1735,
under the name of "Number One." It was afterwards called New
Amesbury, and was subsequently reg,ranted by the Mlasonian proprietors, but a controversy arose between the latter grantees and the
earlier claimants, which was not adjusted for several years, and the
town was not incorporated until 1774, when it assumed its present
name.
Warner was settled, in 1762, by David Annis and Reuben Kimball. Warner River, a tributary of the Contoocook, rises in the
Sunapee Mountains, and passing through this town affords many
good privileges for mills and shops. Pleasant Pond, whose waters
are cold, pure, and deep, has no visible inlet or outlet, although it
maintains its maximum depth in the dryest season. The soil of
this town is very good; the minerals are gneiss and mica slate, the
latter containing beds of limestone and talcose rock, while in the
former are found very fine specimens of splendidly colored pyrope, a
garnet sometimes blood-red, but generally a modification of that
color, and frequently tinged with yellow. There is an extensive and
valuable soapstone quarry, and also a large and rich peat bog, lwhich
is twenty-five to thirty feet in depth, from which beaver cuttings
have been exhumed, denoting that in the far-distant past it was the
site of an immense beaver dam.
Hopkinton joins Concord'on the west, its principal village being
about seven miles from the State capital. It was granted by Massa chusetts, in 1735, to John Jones and others, and was called" Num ber Five," and was subsequently called New Hopkinton, from Hop
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