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 SOUPCE AND ITS TRIB&'-TA-IES.
against his transcendent genius; on the contrary, the most dogmatical
of his opponents were amazed at the consummate ability with which
he sustained and urged what they considered a poor cause, declaring,
that if his cause was just, and he was thereby thrice armed, he
would be invincible to any force of numbers or talent that should
oppose him.
Unlike Ilamilton in many respects, he was, as Jefferson said
of Hamilton, a host in himself, and with a party or without, he was
formidable, and it required the utmost circumspection of his opponents
to guard the vulnerable points of their theory and practice against
his masterly assaults. Whatever might be thought or said of his
politics, the purity and fervency of his patriotism was never
questioned; he proved his love of country by devoting nearly the
entire period of.his maturity and unsurpassed ability to her cause
and her welfare. Like a pure fountain of sweet waters, his love of
country, not in shallow, transparent, flimsy mouthings, was generous,
and all men, whatever their persuasion or policy, could imbibe freely
at this unfailing and refreshing spring, with profit to themselves
and advantage to the State. Among the many lessons learned
here from Nature's book he learned to be a disciple of Izaak
Walton, - an exciting, healthful, and rational recreation, under
the proper restrictions of reasonable titnes and seasons, - and
Daniel Webster the angler, if not as fam.ous and historical, is as
familiar and interesting as Daniel Webster the foremost statesman'of the ag,e. It was in the midst of one of these favorite
expeditions that he wrote the celebrated Ilulsemann Letter, which
may be regarded as the keystone in the triumphal arch of his
diplomatic fame.
Itis lofty genius towered up like Kearsarge, under whose shadows
he sported in childhood, conspicuous among his fellows, and, like this
firm, immovable mountain, his head was bared to the pitiless, unreasoning,, and incongruous elements; and, although Daniel Webster
the mortal has passed away, he "still lives" in the brightest pages
of his country's history, and in the affection of an enlightened people, and Kears.lrge shall, by some fearful convulsion, fall sooner
than the memory and fame of Daniel Webster!
He died Oct. 22d, 1852; and, as ten thousand bells pealed solemnly the knell of his departure, a nation bowed in grief at the
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