. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. THE FOUNTAIN, ON MUNDY HILL Friend Street. Po Hill rises steeply from its left bank. ThiePowow is mentioned in the poem The Fountain : — Where the birch canoe had glided Down the swift Powow,Dark and gloomy bridges strided Those clear waters now ;And where once the beaver the wheel and frowned the dam. The Fountain is a spring that may be found onthe western side of Mundy Hill. The oak mentioned inthis poem is gone, and a willow takes its place. TheRocky Hill meeting-house is w^ell worth the attention of 88 visitors, as a
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. THE FOUNTAIN, ON MUNDY HILL Friend Street. Po Hill rises steeply from its left bank. ThiePowow is mentioned in the poem The Fountain : — Where the birch canoe had glided Down the swift Powow,Dark and gloomy bridges strided Those clear waters now ;And where once the beaver the wheel and frowned the dam. The Fountain is a spring that may be found onthe western side of Mundy Hill. The oak mentioned inthis poem is gone, and a willow takes its place. TheRocky Hill meeting-house is w^ell worth the attention of 88 visitors, as a well-preserved specimen of the meeting-houses of the olden time. Jts pulj^it, pews, and galleriesretain their original form as when built in 1785. It is situ-ated on the easternmost of the fine circlet of hills that. ROCKY HILL CHURCH, BUILT IN 1785 incloses the valley of the Powow. This hill is well named,for here the melting glaciers left their most abundant de-posit of boulders. A trolley line from Amesbury to Salis-bury Beach passes this venerable edifice. Salisbury Beach, now covered with summer cottages,will hardly be recognized as the place described by Whit-tier in his Tent on the Beach. When that poem waswritten, not one of these hundreds of cottages was built,and those who encamped here brought tents. HamptonBeach is a continuation of Salisbury Beach beyond thestate line into New Hampshire. It has given its name toone of the most notable of Whittiers poems, and severalballads refer to it. The Wreck of Rivermouth has forits scene the mouth of the Hampton River, wdiich, wind-ing down from the uplands across salt meadows, anddividing this beach, finds its outlet to the sea. At the AMESBURY 89 northern end of the beach is the picturesque promontoryof Boars Head, and eastward are seen the Isl
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