48 JOURNEY FROM LOWELL. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Journey from Low ell to Saratoga Keene Bellows Falls Towns- 

 end Arlington Driver at Table Landlord and Driver 

 Passage of the Green Mountains Stage Coach practices of 

 America and Britain Passengers and Travellers Juvenile 

 Politeness Agricultural Notices New England Villages Free 

 School Education unfairly estimated by British travellers 

 Education of Scotland and the United States Public Schools 

 Fagging in the Seminaries of Britain Principles of Educa 

 tion. 



WE left Lowell on the morning of the 2d June, passing 

 through Gorton, Townsend, New Ipswich, Jeffrey, and 

 -Keene, a pretty little town with a neat square, in which 

 there is a church with a handsome spire, and many of the 

 houses are composed of brick. The situation is an extensive 

 plain surrounded by well-wooded hills, but the beauty of the 

 place is injured by the want of trees and grass in front of the 

 houses in the square. The population amounts to about 

 2500 souls. There are two glass manufactories two for 

 cotton, and one for woollen are about to be erected. 



Bellows Falls are romantically situated on the river Connec 

 ticut, the approach passing round the base of a beautiful 

 mountain, and over a bridge across the rapids of the river. 

 The manufacture is paper, the machinery propelled by water 

 obtained from a canal half a mile in length, and there is a vast 

 unemployed power. 



Townsend is a small village lying in the bosom of a sweet 

 amphitheatre of hills of limited extent. Its general effect is 

 somewhat destroyed by a glaring church spire, the basement 

 of which is painted white, the middle part pea-green, and the 

 top a chocolate colour. 



