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intervales, through which tlie river glides gracefully on 

 its course towards the jNIerrimack, into which it flows. 

 The mountains rise in stately grandeur upon either side, 

 and, from time to time, on looking back, the traveller 

 is greeted with views of surpassing magnificence. The 

 finest of these views of the Franconia jNIountains is to be 

 seen at a high point in that section of the road which is 

 in the town of Lincoln. This is the view which Starr 

 King considered the finest, and, in this opinion, the ordi- 

 nary observer would readily concur. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, October 1, 1877. 



Meeting this evening. The President in the chair. 

 Records read. Donations and correspondence announced. 



Dr. A. J. Thompson, of Salem, was elected a resident 

 member. 



The President stated that an invitation had been re- 

 ceived from Newport, R. L, to visit that city. After 

 some remarks, it was voted to accept the invitation, and 

 the Secretary was requested to make the necessary ar- 

 rangements. 



The President — in behalf of a committee appointed 

 at the annual meeting in May to consider the propriety of 

 commemorating the two hnndred and fiftieth anniversary 

 of the landing of Governor Endicott at Salem, which will 

 occur in September of next year — reported favorably to 

 a suitable notice of the event, and that the Hon. ^Villiam 

 C. Endicott, of Salem, be invited to deliver the address, 

 and to request the cooperation of the City Government 



