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The President, in his opening rcmaiks, alhided to the 

 pleasiint associations connected with a visit to this town 

 of Amesbiiry, well known, with its neighbor, Salisbury, 

 to the mercantile community, for its varied mechanical 

 industries, and especially in the field of letters, as the 

 home of New England's best known and honored poet, 

 Whittier, Avho from this quiet retreat lias sent forth many 

 of those graphic lines that have contributed so much to 

 the cause of liberty and human progress. He said that 

 ten years had elapsed since the Institute held its first 

 meeting in this town. It was on Thursday, June 25, 

 1863, one of the loveliest of June days. The people 

 were very kind and hospitable, and pointed out the 

 various objects of historic and scientific interest. Our 

 vice president, Mr. A. C. Goodell, Jr., was present on 

 that occasion, and gave an account of his rambles among 

 the historic memorials and relics, noticiiiii: amon2' others 

 the graves of two of the first ministers, liev. William 

 Worcester and Rev. John Wheelwright, the latter distin- 

 guished for his persistent advocacy of the cause of Anne 

 Hutchinson and for the persecutions he endured therefor; 

 the old Bartlett house, where Josiah Bartlett, one of the 

 first signers of the Declaration of Independence, was 

 born, and the room in the buildiui^: where the commis- 



