. Here and there in New England and Canada . WINNIPESAUKEE LILIES. i8 its blue mountain vistas, and \Llli)\vst<)iie could sigh for its sweet and tran-quil farm-lands. From time immemorial, the lake-shores were the homes of the Ossipeeand Winnipesaukee Indians, and at the Weirs great assemblies of othertribes gathered, during the fishing-season. In later days, the raiding-partiesof the French chevaliers and their red-skinned allies found this a capitalroute of attack from Canada upon the frontiers of New England, and manya bleeding American captive and the plunder of devastated villages were
. Here and there in New England and Canada . WINNIPESAUKEE LILIES. i8 its blue mountain vistas, and \Llli)\vst<)iie could sigh for its sweet and tran-quil farm-lands. From time immemorial, the lake-shores were the homes of the Ossipeeand Winnipesaukee Indians, and at the Weirs great assemblies of othertribes gathered, during the fishing-season. In later days, the raiding-partiesof the French chevaliers and their red-skinned allies found this a capitalroute of attack from Canada upon the frontiers of New England, and manya bleeding American captive and the plunder of devastated villages wereborne northward along these shores. As early as 1689, Provincial troopsmade hot forays into the Lake Country, for Cotton Mather had denouncedthe natives as Scvthians, difficiluis invenire quam interficere. Thirty-threeyears later, block-houses were built and garrisoned here, and the aborigines. A GLIMPSE AT LAKE WIXNIlESAUKEE. retired before the Provincial troops. In 1746, Atkinsons New-Hampshireregiment lay, for a year or more, a few miles from the lake, and built astrong fortress at Union Bridge, on the Winnipesaukee River. Theirscouting-parties and reconnoissances in the neighborhood gave them agreat liking for this fair region; and a few years later, when the Conquestof Canada had made an end of Indian raids, they moved on all sides intothe Lake Country, where their descendants now live. The modern taste for accurate statistics compels the statements thatWinnipesaukee covers 70 square miles of water, in places 200 feet deep, andforms 267 islands, covering 8 square miles, 226 of which are of less than 10acres in area each. The inability of the small inflowing streams to form sogreat a lake causes scientific persons to believe that manv copious springs 19
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