Cohass Brook, The Outlet Of Massabesic Pond, - Which Last Is Five Or Six Miles Distant, And Contains Fifteen Hundred Acres, Being The Largest Body Of Fresh Water In Rockingham County, - Comes In Near Here From The East.

Rowing between Manchester and Bedford, we passed, at an early hour, a ferry and some falls, called Goff's Falls,

The Indian Cohasset, where there is a small village, and a handsome green islet in the middle of the stream. From Bedford and Merrimack have been boated the bricks of which Lowell is made. About twenty years before, as they told us, one Moore, of Bedford, having clay on his farm, contracted to furnish eight millions of bricks to the founders of that city within two years. He fulfilled his contract in one year, and since then bricks have been the principal export from these towns. The farmers found thus a market for their wood, and when they had brought a load to the kilns, they could cart a load of bricks to the shore, and so make a profitable day's work of it. Thus all parties were benefited. It was worth the while to see the place where Lowell was "dug out." So likewise Manchester is being built of bricks made still higher up the river at Hooksett.

There might be seen here on the bank of the Merrimack, near Goff's Falls, in what is now the town of Bedford, famous "for hops and for its fine domestic manufactures," some graves of the aborigines.

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