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��cooas (pines), and auke (a place), Philip Carrigaiu, one of the best and means " The crooked mountain map-makers New Hampshire ever place of many pines." N. H. Hist, had, clings to the name Merrimack Colls., Vol. VIII, p. 448. The reader river for the mountain branch of that will see that the word water does not stream. On his map, 1816, the name occur in it, nor was it the Indian name "Merrimack River" appears in the of the river to which it is now applied, present town of Livermore, among the It was the name given by the Indians mountains, and also " Merrimack to the region through which the Mer- River" in Thornton and Campton, rimack river flows. The river Merri- "or Pemigewasset Branch of Merri- mack was so called in all the early mack R." in Campton and Holder- scout journals, — and there are nearly ness.

a dozen of them in the archives of the Thus we see that the name " Pem-

state of Massachusetts (38a), — from ichewashet," or " Remithewaset,"

its mouth to its farthest source in the otherwise the" Pemogewaset W. Br.,"

White Mountains, is rightfully the name of the River

Capt. John Lovewell, the noted Baker, and that the word Pemige-

Indian fighter, tells how, in February, wasset should be applied to the i-egion

1724, he went up the Merrimack river where lived the Pemigewasset ludi-

to what is now the town of Campton, ans, some of whom Capt. Samuel

and killed an Indian. Appalachian Willard,* on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1724,

Vol. II, p. 342. " tracked from Pimichiwassct to

Capt. Samuel Willard, in his scout Cusumpy Pond." journal, Se|)tember, 1724, speaks of

��marching up the Merrimack river nearly to East Branch, and then cross- ing the mountains to the Saco. Idem, p. 342.

��7. Squam Lake.

This is the most beautiful lake in New England. Its bed is rock and

Capt. John White's scout journal, white quartz sand ; its water, clear as

1725, as we have seen, mentions the crystal; its shores, gentle curves, bold

" Meremock " at Plymouth, and " the headlands, and sharp capes; its

lower end of Pemichiwaset lower islands, crinkling sti'ipes across its

intrevals." surface; its mountain peaks, crests,

Jeffrey's map, 1755, makes " Pem- and domes, backed by the whole form

ogewasset R." flow from what is now of the gallant Chocorua, with his

Squam lake. "steel-hooded head." Moosilauke

Holland's map, 1784, shows " Mer- commands a view of its south-eastern

rimack river" running down from shore.

Franconia and Lincoln, and the name How the uneuphouious name of

Merrimack river is in New Britain, Squam came to be applied to it we

now Andover and Franklin, and New have not yet learned.

Chester, now Hill, Bristol, and Bridge- Capt. John Lovewell is one of the

water, opposite to" Sandbourn Town." first to mention it. In his scout

��* Willard Pays " we found a large Wigwam where j'e Indians luid lately been, as we judged about 20 in number, and our Indian .«aid there was Squaws as well as Saunups.'' — Apalackia, Vol. II, p. 3-12.

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