Who Would Not Be Willing That His House
Should Be Undermined By Such A Foe!
The inhabitant of an island
can tell what currents formed the land which he cultivates; and
his earth is still being created or destroyed.
There before his
door, perchance, still empties the stream which brought down the
material of his farm ages before, and is still bringing it down
or washing it away, - the graceful, gentle robber!
Not long after this we saw the Piscataquoag, or Sparkling Water,
emptying in on our left, and heard the Falls of Amoskeag above.
Large quantities of lumber, as we read in the Gazetteer, were
still annually floated down the Piscataquoag to the Merrimack,
and there are many fine mill privileges on it. Just above the
mouth of this river we passed the artificial falls where the
canals of the Manchester Manufacturing Company discharge
themselves into the Merrimack. They are striking enough to have
a name, and, with the scenery of a Bashpish, would be visited
from far and near. The water falls thirty or forty feet over
seven or eight steep and narrow terraces of stone, probably to
break its force, and is converted into one mass of foam. This
canal-water did not seem to be the worse for the wear, but foamed
and fumed as purely, and boomed as savagely and impressively, as
a mountain torrent, and, though it came from under a factory, we
saw a rainbow here. These are now the Amoskeag Falls, removed a
mile down-stream.
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