. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. and as a rallying point for the troops kepton the scout. There are many port-holes through its thickwalls. A little farther on we come to Rocks Village, picturedso perfectly by Whittier in his poem • The Countess,that it will be at once recognized : — Over the wooded northern ridge,Between its houses brown,To the dark tunnel of the bridgeThe street comes straggUng down. 4^ WIIITTIKR-LAND Ihe bridge across the Merrimac at (liis point was a cov-ered and o;loomy structure at the time this poem waswritten. It lias since been partially remodeled, and many
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. and as a rallying point for the troops kepton the scout. There are many port-holes through its thickwalls. A little farther on we come to Rocks Village, picturedso perfectly by Whittier in his poem • The Countess,that it will be at once recognized : — Over the wooded northern ridge,Between its houses brown,To the dark tunnel of the bridgeThe street comes straggUng down. 4^ WIIITTIKR-LAND Ihe bridge across the Merrimac at (liis point was a cov-ered and o;loomy structure at the time this poem waswritten. It lias since been partially remodeled, and manyof the houses of the stranded village, then brown andpaintless, have received modern improvements. J]ut thereis enough of antiquity still clinging to the place to makeit recognizable from Whittiers lines. This was the marketto which the \\hittiers brought much of the produce oftheir farm to barter for household supplies. This was thehome of Dr. Elias Weld, the wise old doctor of Snow-]]ound, and it was to him The Countess was inscribed. ROCKS VILLAGE AND BRIDGE Home of the Countess was at further end of the bridge, in house now standing,afterward occupied by Whittiers benefactor, — the poem which every year brings many visitors hither,for the grave of the Countess is near. Whittier w^as still in his teens w^hen this eccentric phy-sician left Rocks Village and removed to Hallowell,Maine, and ahnost half a century had intervened before hewrote that remarkable tribute to the friend and benefactorof his youth, which is found in the prelude to The HAVERHILL 49
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