. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. by the scenery of this locality. At the Mwer end of thisvalley, near the mouth of the Powow, on the edge of thebluff overlooking the Merrimac, Goody Martin lived morethan two hundred years ago, and the cellar of her housewas still to be seen when, in 1857, Whittier first told thestory of The Witchs Daughter, the poem now knownas Mabel Martin. She was the only woman who suffereddeath on a charge of witchcraft on the north side of theMerrimac. One other aged woman in this village Avasimprisoned, and would have been put to death, but for thetimely colla
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. by the scenery of this locality. At the Mwer end of thisvalley, near the mouth of the Powow, on the edge of thebluff overlooking the Merrimac, Goody Martin lived morethan two hundred years ago, and the cellar of her housewas still to be seen when, in 1857, Whittier first told thestory of The Witchs Daughter, the poem now knownas Mabel Martin. She was the only woman who suffereddeath on a charge of witchcraft on the north side of theMerrimac. One other aged woman in this village Avasimprisoned, and would have been put to death, but for thetimely collapse of the persecution. She was the wife ofJudge Bradbury, and lived on the Salisbury side of thePowow. In his ballad Whittier traces the path he used to AMESBURY 57 take towards the Goody Martin place, as was his cus-tom in many of his ballads. One who desires to take thispath can enter upon it at the Union Cemetery, where thepoet is buried. Follow the • level tableland he describestowards the Merrimac, looking down at the left into the. CURSONS MILL, ARTICHOKE RIVER deep and picturesque valley of the Powow. — a charmingview of its placid, winding course after it has made itsplunge of eighty feet over a shoulder of Po Hill, — until you ... see the dull plain fallSheer off, steep-slanted, ploughed by allThe seasons rainfalls, and you look down upon the broad ]\Ierrimac seeking the wave-sung welcome of the sea. Find a path windingdown the bluff facinsf the river, half-wav down to the hatfactory which is close to the water, and you are upon thelocation of Goodv ^lartins cottage. But no trace is nowto be seen of the cellar, vine overrun which the poetdescribes. I visited the spot with the poet on the October daybefore referred to, and noted the felicity of his descrip-tions of the locality. It is near the river, but high above 58 WHITTIER-LAND • il, and one looks doiufi upon tlic tojis of the willows onthe bank : — And through the willow-boughs belowShe saw the rippled w
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