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 SOURl?CE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
present glory vestiges of the history of its former, but fallen, grandeur.
"By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorps, a little town
And half a hundred bridges-"
and thus singing as it rolls along Tennyson's beautiful song of
the brook, -by the eventful history of this most historic place,
and the mystery which still surrounds an aboriginal and most
mysterious race,' now gone, all gone," - by the decline and fall of a
wilderness empire and its reoccupation by another race and color
whic h, under the ample folds of the broad, bright banner of civilization, has uprooted Paganism, atnd disseminated a progressive enlightened and Christian faith,-by the going and the coming of races
of men which it has witnessed,- the Merrimack gives peculiar emphasis and force to the declaration,
" For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever."
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