...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ...— that the humble life of a Jewish peasant should have force to make a New York bishop so bigoted. Forty four lamps, the gift of kings, now burning in... ...t sounds to us. Their harbors lay as smooth and fairy like as the Lido, or Syracuse, or Rhodes, in our imagination, while, like some strange roving cr... ...any similar excursions to the principal moun tains of New England and New York, and even far in the wilderness, and have passed a night on the summit...