. Summer saunterings ... : a guide to pleasant places among the mountains, lakes and valleys of New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada . ghall keepTill mornings latest sunlight fades On the blue tablet of the deep. In this intervale there was a fort, in the earlj settlement, and here, in theFrench and Indian war, Colonel Goffs regiment spent the winter, andwas drilled and then marched overland to Crown Point. Up over thehill, eastward, it is only about two miles to Websters birthplace, thenin Salisbury, but now included in the town of Franklin. At Franklin, a large and thriving town, the Pemigewass
. Summer saunterings ... : a guide to pleasant places among the mountains, lakes and valleys of New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada . ghall keepTill mornings latest sunlight fades On the blue tablet of the deep. In this intervale there was a fort, in the earlj settlement, and here, in theFrench and Indian war, Colonel Goffs regiment spent the winter, andwas drilled and then marched overland to Crown Point. Up over thehill, eastward, it is only about two miles to Websters birthplace, thenin Salisbury, but now included in the town of Franklin. At Franklin, a large and thriving town, the Pemigewasset and Win-nipesaukee rivers unite to form the Merrimack, from whence somesay is its name, signifying in the Algonquin tongue, the meetingof the waters. Other suggestive derivations of the name Merrimackhave been given before. These streams furnish power for numerouslarge manufactories. From here the Bristol Branch diverges, running to Bristol, a thriftymanufacturing place thirteen miles distant, on the shores of NewfoundLake, which is mountain-environed, full of iish, and popular withsummer campers and farm-houses WEBSTER LAKE. Just beyond Franklin the road skirtsthe banks of Webster Lake, one of themany sheets of water to be seen on thisline, and one of the most attractive. Ithas pleasant camp grounds near the rail-road and shore. At East Andover is Highland Lake, with clean, sandy beach; and atAndover, Eagle Pond, with Ragged Mountain beyond on the Potter Place station stages are taken for New London, thelocation of the Colby Academy, a preparatory school under the patron-age of the Baptist denomination. It is also the station from whichto reach the Winslow House on Mt. Kearsarge ; this mountain supply-ing a name for the celebrated war ship which sunk the Confederatecruiser, Alabama off Cherbourg, France, in 18G4, and the house onthe mountain was named for her brave commander. 28 Canaan is a countrj town; the centre, some two miles north, havinga very w
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