. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. bor and bay ; Plum Island ; CapeAnn ; Salisbury and Hampton beaches ; Boars Head andLittle Boars Head ; Crane Neck and many other of thebeautiful hills of Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich, and Dan-vers. The view of Cape Ann as seen from Po Hill isreferred to by Whittier at the opening of the poem * TheGarrison of Cape Ann : — From the hills of home forth looking, far beneath the tent-like spanOf the sky, I see the white gleam of the headland of Cape Ann. Down the south side of the Po flows the Powow River ina series of cascades, the finest of which are now h
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. bor and bay ; Plum Island ; CapeAnn ; Salisbury and Hampton beaches ; Boars Head andLittle Boars Head ; Crane Neck and many other of thebeautiful hills of Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich, and Dan-vers. The view of Cape Ann as seen from Po Hill isreferred to by Whittier at the opening of the poem * TheGarrison of Cape Ann : — From the hills of home forth looking, far beneath the tent-like spanOf the sky, I see the white gleam of the headland of Cape Ann. Down the south side of the Po flows the Powow River ina series of cascades, the finest of which are now hiddenby the mills, or arched over by the main street of thevillage of Amesbury. The hill is celebrated in severalof Whittiers poems, including Abram Morrison, Mir-iam, and Cobbler Keezars Vision. The Powow, alittle way above its plunge over the rocks where it givespowder for the mills, flows in front of the Whittier home,and but the width of a block distant. The surface ofits swift current is but a few feet below the level of AMESBURY 87. THE FOUNTAIN, ON MUNDY HILL Friend Street. Po Hill rises steeply from its left bank. ThiePowow is mentioned in the poem The Fountain : — Where the birch canoe had glided Down the swift Powow,Dark and gloomy bridges strided Those clear waters now ;And where once the beaver the wheel and frowned the dam. The Fountain is a spring that may be found onthe western side of Mundy Hill. The oak mentioned inthis poem is gone, and a willow takes its place. TheRocky Hill meeting-house is w^ell worth the attention of 88 visitors, as a well-preserved specimen of the meeting-houses of the olden time. Jts pulj^it, pews, and galleriesretain their original form as when built in 1785. It is situ-ated on the easternmost of the fine circlet of hills that
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