. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . also uponit. for three or four years subsequent to1834, a fair-sized steamboat, plying forl>assengers and freight between Nashuaand Lowell. She was commanded oneseason by Capt. Jacob Vanderbilt ofStaten Island, New York, brother to thelate Commodore Vanderbilt. In theearly part of the season, while the wa-ter of the river was at its highest stages,it was also thronged with logs and lum-ber being taken down for market. Thelarger falls being impassable except by structed for navigation purpos
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . also uponit. for three or four years subsequent to1834, a fair-sized steamboat, plying forl>assengers and freight between Nashuaand Lowell. She was commanded oneseason by Capt. Jacob Vanderbilt ofStaten Island, New York, brother to thelate Commodore Vanderbilt. In theearly part of the season, while the wa-ter of the river was at its highest stages,it was also thronged with logs and lum-ber being taken down for market. Thelarger falls being impassable except by structed for navigation purposes aboutthe same time as the other Merrimackriver canals but by different parties,who subsequently (in 1821) sold outto the Lowell manufacturing compa-nies. Newburyport rafts usually con-sisted of ship-timber, masts, lumber,and wood ; and, if starling from anyplace below Amoskeag falls, could bemade into larger shots than those des-tined to pass through the Middlesexcanal, because the Fawtucket canallocks were much larger. The construction of these canals wasa great enterprise in that day. Boston. PUSHING AGAINST T3E CURRENT. their canals the logs and lumber hadnecessarily to be bound into rafts oisuch dimensions as would pass throughthe locks. And at the larger canals,such as the Amoskeag and Middlesex,the labor of locking down and towingthese rafts — called shots — was vervconsiderable and consumed much canals these shots were boundtogether into large rafts of eight or tenshots, called bands, and floated downwith the current, generally at high wa-ter, avoiding the locks at the smallercanals by running the falls. Many ofthese rafts continued down the river toNewburyport, passing the Pawtucketfalls through a canal and locks con- was a town of only about twenty thou-sand inhabitants when the Middlesexcanal was opened ; neither Lowell norManchester had been commenced ;Nashua was a small j^lace, withoutmanufacturing, and Concord was acountry village. Massachusetts
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