. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . - military guardsand aU the pomp and circumstance possible, to confer upon the questionof the boundary. They failed to agree and referred the matter to theking. His orders were intended to be carried out; but, in fact, it isonly within two or three years that the precise limits of Massachusettsin this region have been settled. In early times Hampton river sawmuch West Indian and local commerce, ship-building and cod-fishing. The extensive salt-marshes,
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . - military guardsand aU the pomp and circumstance possible, to confer upon the questionof the boundary. They failed to agree and referred the matter to theking. His orders were intended to be carried out; but, in fact, it isonly within two or three years that the precise limits of Massachusettsin this region have been settled. In early times Hampton river sawmuch West Indian and local commerce, ship-building and cod-fishing. The extensive salt-marshes, where now huge stacks of hay dot thewide expanse like an immense encampment of Indians on the jjlains, 241 were the attraction in the early settlement of this rej^ion, since thesemarshes aflbrded the hay which there was not clearing enough to culti-vate upon upland meadows. One of the old customs of the place sur-vives in Salisbury, which occupies the dry land between the Hamptonsalt-marshes and the Merrimac river, and is full of pleasant custom has led the people of the vicinity during the last two cen-. -dis^ T turies to gather in August for a picnic on Salisbury beach, whose sixmiles of sand is skirted with cottages and hotels, and where is the sceneof AVhittiers Tent on The Beach. This gathering has of late yearsassumed enormous proportions, as many as 25,000 persons sometimescoming together and listening to speeches,— chiefly political. Abranch-railway from Salisbury runs north to the busy, yet graceful, 242 factory village of Amesbury, ensconced in hills overlooking the Merri-mac, where Mr. Whittier lives, antl to whicli there are many allusionsin the poets verses. It has been well said that his poems might serveas a guide to Essex county; and the best commentary upon tliem fromthis point of view will be found in an illustrated article by George in Harpefs Magazine for February, 1883. Crossing the long and lofty bridge that spans the Merrimac, we
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