. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. bridge, running, pushing and throwingtheir horns about, it was up these arches that the foot travelercould run for safety. Both the bridges were built with moneyraised by a public lottery, for it was not until later that theevils resulting from getting money by chance were so clearlyseen as to make games of chance to be forbidden by law. How Springfield looked from the river, below the town,in 1796, was described by President Dwight of Yale Colle
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. bridge, running, pushing and throwingtheir horns about, it was up these arches that the foot travelercould run for safety. Both the bridges were built with moneyraised by a public lottery, for it was not until later that theevils resulting from getting money by chance were so clearlyseen as to make games of chance to be forbidden by law. How Springfield looked from the river, below the town,in 1796, was described by President Dwight of Yale College,who was taking a horseback journey up the valley. Wetook, says he, in his Travels in New England and New OLD TIMES AND NEW 121 York, a road along the bank of a river from Suffield throughan almost absolute wilderness and crossed a ferry, one milebelow Springfield. On the river we were presented with a veryromantic prospect. The river itself, for several miles, bothabove and below, one-fourth of a mile wide, was in full , a considerable tributary on the west, with a largeand handsome interval on the tongue between the two streams,. wl»lillllllla_iJllllil!il ^iijijl Agaw VM P Eh joined the Connecticut at a small distance above. The peakof Mount Tom rose nobly in the northwest, at a distance oftwelve miles. A little eastward of the Connecticut the whitespire of a Springfield church, embosomed in trees, animatedthe scene in a manner remarkably picturesque. On the side,immediately below the ferry, rose several rude hills, crossedby a sprightly mill stream. At their foot commenced anextensive intervale called Longmeadow; above which, in 122 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD the midst of groves and orchards, ascended the spire of Long-meadow church. The evening was just so far advanced, as,without obscuring materially the distinctness of our view,to give an inimitable softening to the landscape. We arrived at sundown. The town is built chiefly ona single street, lying parallel wit
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