. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . xplorers were Indian traders, and in1657 the trade of Nashuway river was sold for £8. The region wasthickly populated by red men, divided into many small bands, eachunder its own leader, but all, from the Merrimac to the Connecticut,acknowledging the general supremacy of Passaconaway, sachem of thePennacook confederacy. This man owed his power not only to hisexploits as a warrior, and his skill as a sorcerer, but to his strong nativesagacity. He died in
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . xplorers were Indian traders, and in1657 the trade of Nashuway river was sold for £8. The region wasthickly populated by red men, divided into many small bands, eachunder its own leader, but all, from the Merrimac to the Connecticut,acknowledging the general supremacy of Passaconaway, sachem of thePennacook confederacy. This man owed his power not only to hisexploits as a warrior, and his skill as a sorcerer, but to his strong nativesagacity. He died in 1670, at the reputed age of 120, and his name is 13 preserved not only by the noble mountain north of Lake Winnipesaukee,but in many a tradition. Nasawock (Lancaster) was repeatedly at-tacked by King Phillip previous to that frightful February day in 1676marked by Mrs. Rowlandsons capture. She herself wrotea most pathetic ac-count of it, and ofher captivity. Pruereminds us. I re-member how shespeaks of it as thedolefullest day thatmine eyes ever must have been,poor thing. But that was notall the doleful his-tory of this vale. A. L
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