. Outdoors in New England . At Nashua Junction the tourist probably will have noticedthe joining of another and smaller stream with the waters ofthe Merrimac. This is the Nashua River, one of the most pic-turesque of American streams, and, like the Merrimac itself,a veritable paradise of the canoeist. Canoeing, indeed, has been always one of the chief de-lights of outdoor life along the Merrimac, from its upper reachesto its mouth, since the early days when the Indians themselvesset the style. Cities, towns, villages, smiling farms, bridges, white-paint-ed country churches and forest areas all
. Outdoors in New England . At Nashua Junction the tourist probably will have noticedthe joining of another and smaller stream with the waters ofthe Merrimac. This is the Nashua River, one of the most pic-turesque of American streams, and, like the Merrimac itself,a veritable paradise of the canoeist. Canoeing, indeed, has been always one of the chief de-lights of outdoor life along the Merrimac, from its upper reachesto its mouth, since the early days when the Indians themselvesset the style. Cities, towns, villages, smiling farms, bridges, white-paint-ed country churches and forest areas all pass in review like anunfolding panorama. Anon, a ponderous raft of logs, bring-ing with it a suggestion of the vast, sweet-smelling wildernessin the hill country above, drift slowly down with the current;or canoes, sail-boats or motor-craft appear. The river, indeed,is never devoid of life; for even in winter the skater and the ice-boat enthusiast take possession of its frozen surface. Manchester, although a great industr
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