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14. New Manufacturing Towns.—The energetic character of the American people is nowhere more strikingly displayed than in the young manufacturing settlements that are so rapidly springing up in the Northern States.

A retired valley and its stream of water become in a few months the seat of manufactures; and the dam and water-wheel are the means of giving employment to busy thousands, where before nothing more than a solitary farmhouse was to be found. Such, in a few words, is the history of Waterbury and all the Naugatuck settlements of Holyoke, Chicopee, Lowell, and Lawrence. Many others might be mentioned, but allusion is now only made to those visited.

15. Waterbury.—Waterbury is situated in the Naugatuck valley, about 24 miles north of Newhaven. It contains many manufacturing