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��The surface is undulating, and affords an opportunity for tasteful and artistic improvement ; and winding avenues, foot-paths, a little lake, and wide-spread- ing trees beautify the place. The fore- fathers of the town were buried in the old cemetery in the village, while the Catholics have consecrated ground to the north of Blossom Hill. As one gazes toward the city, one after the other three trains of cars appear glid- ing towards the north : the one crosses the river to East Concord, passes the site of the Old Fort, and follows up the line of the canal by

��scenery, known from the days of yore as Long Pond, but lately dignified by the name of Penacook Lake. Three miles long, but narrow, its pure crystal water fed by springs beneath its sur- face, — a hundred feet above the level of Main Street, — is the reservoir, which, by an elaborate system of water-works, supplies the city. Its overflow furnishes the power which has built up the flour- ishing village of West Concord, a hive of industrv directed by one active brain.

���the ruined buttresses of the dam at Sewall's Falls ; the other follows up the valley of the Merrimack, and crosses Sewall's Island, the station at Penacook, and that little island at the mouth of the Contoocook River, where stands a granite statue to commemorate the heroism of Hannah Dustin ; the third, after passing the village of West Con- cord, deflects to the west and south, passes the Mast Yard, and follows the valley of the Contoocook.

Nestling at the base of Rattlesnake, to the west, is a beautiful sheet of water, surrounded by high hills and quiet rural

��Here is a granite church, very attractive within and without ; numerous pleasant homes ; and, in the middle of the street, a horse-car station. If one but wait long enough, he can board an open car, and be propelled over the public high- way, behind a steam-motor, to the north- ern limits of the city, to the village of Penacook on the banks of the Con- toocook. The village overflows into the neighboring town of Boscawen, but the political division is only recog- nized on town-meeting days. Here are located factories, founderies, and mills, churches, schoolhouses, business blocks, and private residences, of a character to indicate the thrift and in- dustry of the village; yet it is nearly

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