. Here and there in New England and Canada . -, and other metropolitan luxuries. Peterborough was settledby Scotch-Irish Presbyterians a century and a half ago, and acted as a de-fensive outpost of Massachusetts against the northern Indians. Climbingup from the narrow glen in which the village nestles, you reach the highplateau and ever-present hills, with many comfortable farms and summerboarding-houses, and glorious views of Monadnock and its brethren. Thebest of these outlooks may be gained from the old grave-yard hill in thecentre of the town, two hundred feet above the river. A beautiful
. Here and there in New England and Canada . -, and other metropolitan luxuries. Peterborough was settledby Scotch-Irish Presbyterians a century and a half ago, and acted as a de-fensive outpost of Massachusetts against the northern Indians. Climbingup from the narrow glen in which the village nestles, you reach the highplateau and ever-present hills, with many comfortable farms and summerboarding-houses, and glorious views of Monadnock and its brethren. Thebest of these outlooks may be gained from the old grave-yard hill in thecentre of the town, two hundred feet above the river. A beautiful river-road 99. runs six miles from Ieterljorough to Jaffrey, the old-time Mirklle-Monadnocktown, famous as a summer-resort, and commanding, from its quaint oldvillage high up on the plateau, a royal view of Monadnock. And anotherpleasant road runs from Peterborough to Dublin, the most fashionable summer-resort in all the Monadnock country. Returning to Hancock Junction, we may go northward by railway downthe Contoocook Valley to Contoocook and Concord, traversing the quiethill-towns of Bennington, Antrim, Hillsborough, and Henniker, each with itshalf-score of summer boarding-houses. Hillsborough was the birthplace ofFranklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States. Returning to the main line from Manchester to Keene, after these divaga-tions along the silvery Contoocook, we soon reach Harrisville, whose chiefvillage, thirteen hundred feet above the sea, is well known for its manu-factures of woollen goods and Hannels. Four miles to the southward is thepicturesque mountain-town of Dublin, w
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