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 TRIBUTARIESl.
sented, in 1682, as being at Agamenticus, in Maine, -identical with
Aspinquid, - several years after Gookin wrote. Here it was that
Gookin, to further the ends of justice, in those primitive days held
his court, trying causes and meting out "equal and exact " justice
with dignity and gravity. HIere, too, the pious Elliot, in his little
log chapel, preached "peace on earth and good-will to man," while
stalwart savages, steeped to the eyebrows in Paganism, listened with
unction, if not compunction, and stupid decorum, shrugging their
shoulders as they retired at the disparity of the preaching and practices of the pale-face.
The MAlerrimack River, at Lowell, is spanned by two bridges,one at Pawtucket Falls, the other leading to Central Village, which
formerly belonged to the town of Dracut, but was annexed to Lowell
some twenty years since. This last bridge was rebuilt a few years
ago at a cost of about thirty-five thousand dollars.
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