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 SO UP CE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
the result already reached was plainly foreshadowed, and it required
no prophetic vision to discern in the character of these men and their
comprehensive plan the certainty of ultimate and complete success;
still, to accomplish this purpose, to reach this consummation, the
services of efficient and skilful coadjutors were required to superintend and carry into practice the important details of this vast and
complicated scheme. Without such co-operation they foresaw inevitable failure, and at once cast about to secure the highest order of
talent, the most eminent engineers, artisans, and mcchliiiics, men
of intelligence and character as executive officers of the various
branches of this great enterprise. The city of Manchester being
a recently collected community, in other words, beiiing emphatically
a new settlement as well as a new city, exhibits unmistakably the
well-known characteristics of such a condition of things, as well as
other features remarkable and unusual in a young and heterogenieous
community. Depending as she has entirely on her manufacturing
interests for prosperity and growth; destitute of any and all of those
long-establlished interests or enterprises which move the slow progress of older places, her people having been broughlt there, rather
than born there, it would be only natural to presume that the city in
the aggregate and in detail; in its manufactures and its great edifices for that purpose; in its numerous mills and shops, where every
variety of mechanical works are carried on; in the location, style, and
expense of churches and school-houses; in the arrangement, number,
and size of buildings for business purposes; in the architecture, convenience, and adornment of its dwellings, its broad and regular
streets, numerous public squares, and all other matters tending to
convenience, taste, skill, means, and enterprise of a people attracted
here by their inclinations, interest, or some other cause, and who had
each for himself marked out his home and surroundings. Observation and the reflection of thoughtful men will, of course, suggest tle
utter impossibility of so much method, regularity, order, convenience, comfort, and beauty, as the result of such anomalous collection, diversity and incongruity of taste, and will naturally cast
about for the invisible cause of all this wonderful system. The
skilful and careful perfection of the original city plan; the wise location of the many public squares which beautify and adorn every
section of the city; the wisdom which has divided up and distributed
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