ficence which with ample meuns disiesaiils c.\ 

 |<eiise. 



His fiistexliihiiioiion omnriivd) vvns ilie l)ertii- 

 tihil youth, liis sfMnid son, seediiii:;!^ alinoM ;iii 

 nitttiK, (.i„,ii(.t ivilli his Ixxik (« t;ik.; .luivip liw 

 iiiiiiieot evecv visit.ir uC soiiifthius I'k'^ t»o Ijinj- 

 died n,vilf>,l (,.,■ this fhiy, «s the ciini.i-os s<ic- 

 cess.i»-Iy (unved, «i(h or willioul huiii^s. The 

 ehlei-ol ihe njiiiii.v, now (tv.vfjli.u; i„ Kdrope, 

 » riles to his inothec in ehiio^2iuphv\v|ji,-h wouhl 

 < o ciwht l« Ihe fiiiishe.l iiiiidMsnipts which alier 

 llie.v weiewiitfei. 8upi,lie<l (he phici; of ptiiit.ul 

 liooks, when Iriirning h^.s (.i-eseive<l within iJie 

 <■ oisiere-l w.-.llsofmieieiit limes. Without a liher- 

 fll ediication heyomltheiiistniclioii ((iniishe.l liy 

 Ilie uhl Diiiiiiner Aeaih^iiiy in his own nei-hhor- 

 lioufl, ihis yoiiii^L' man turns ont matler wiih tlie 

 lapidity and ease of the most practised editor, in 

 ■I coimnned rorrespoiulence fbr the newspapers 

 — inalter ec|nal to that of VVilhs or JJryaiil now 

 Jiiivelluii; in the eastern world. Id the" course of 

 several months he had so distHipiiished himsell, 

 wilhoiit (he knowled^re eithejofhis (aiher at 

 liome, or that molher whose iiistniotions had iin- 

 planted m Ins y<Hin.ff mind not only the hestprin- 

 ei|.le.s hdt Ihe Letter accomplishmcius which e.i- 

 iihle hiid lo appear to advantase at the first 

 conit in Lurope, that he was sought out at home 

 t>y the aulhorilies of his own State as an amami- 

 eiis^s to seleet and rescue fiom the iiiannscripts 

 "I laris, in pnhlic archives and private lihraries, 

 Uie materials (or much of the yet unwritten his- 

 tory o( Massachusetts and of our coimtrv. 



The harn, or hyre, of ihe Indian hill iki-ni rc- 

 fiiains to he descrihed. It is laid within waJIs 

 which must eiultire for ajies, with ils lo\ver story 

 helow the surface of the ground. The flooriu" 

 <UK.er the earth is paved rocks: behind ihe slaIN 

 IS a gutter from which ihe urine all rims towards 

 the vanlt vxe have described, which there has its 

 peculiar use. The hay is fed from the story above 

 iiito Ihe racks. The building is constructed after 

 the manner or tlie Scotch bvres, or barn.s as the 

 choice of the owner who had visited them : if 

 Ifnslow^er story fUils in any thing, it is, that por- 

 lonsof.t maybe too dark and close for the 

 health ol the animal— cool in summer, but per- 

 ha|)s too warm in winter. They are, without 

 doid.t, well calculated for the cold, humid climate 

 ot tecoiland. In the story above, extending like a ' 

 longL, the passage is entered at one end and goes 

 out at the other, having room for exiended bays 

 into which are put from 150 to- 200 tons of hay' 

 with other corn stuff, straw and huts, etc. Fron't- 

 iiig the barn on the west end, is an additional 

 building ol extended spaceway, a repository for 

 giaiii, harrelled and cider apples. Sec, and under 

 Utile piggery III several apartments: the barn 

 Itself, add this building, lorm half of the triangle 

 ot a yard of dimensions sufficiently lar^e for (lie 

 cattle to range, and ground for deposking and 

 making heaps of compost. The buildings yards 

 and groundwork, all prepared with a view to per- 

 manency, are of the most perfect kiml: the work 

 has been done at much less expense than would 

 appear Irom the cost usually put into durable I 

 public hnildmgs. I 



Col. Pool e iias not satisfied. Iiitriself with what ' 

 he has done on this noble firm which has come 

 to him, through ancestors of centuries. Much of 

 his time abseiil, he yet carries out hi? plans for 

 Ihe whole whh such sysiem that he lavs out his 

 work to be fully asi^ertaiued, as well before it is 

 done as alter the record is made. This l:e leaves 

 athome, wiih the- tines and seasons— what i^ 

 first, wlial IS last to be done— what is to form the 

 standing object of improvement when the neces- 

 sary farm work has been completed. A little 

 south ot this main farm, Cok P. has purchased 

 some two or three years ago) in several pieces,a 

 body ot land containing sixty acres: it was sev- 

 eral years before he could get a title of the sever- 

 al owners, and for it he gave various prices: for 

 some twenty dollars, and for other porlions 

 more than that price per acre. This land, he 

 calls the Meadow Farm, from the fict that it Liir- 

 rounds, as in an amphitheatre, a swamp of sev- 

 eral acres. By the stream running ont ol this 

 swamp, beginning at its outlet, he li;is found the 

 means of completely drainine it. The draining 

 leaves exposed an almost inexhaustible amouiu 

 of rich muck, which Col. P. considers better for 

 his purposes than a mine of .t'old. With the aid 

 of this exposed aii.l mollified by the air, he say-* 

 he wants no stable manure carted upon his 



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grounds to assist tfie crops. He lias tried the 

 tiitick alone o« wJieat, corn and grass land, and 

 finds It e.\cellent, 



'I'he Meadow (arm has upon it only a small 

 house ad.l barn; it isquite couvenieni, either for 

 a sepaiat<: Jarm, <m- i« Ih.- Udiled with the larger 

 tarm in its neighborhood. " 



One add a half mile of stone >vall ha.s been 

 made ujxjn the Meadow f«rm, which is nearly 

 surrounded by two public road.s. This wall is 

 of a kiml particularly chosen as a model by Col. 

 I . while Ml !-c<,llad<J. It is built of slones brok- 

 en to .shape by the hammer, (iom rocks of a blu- 

 ish cast and flinty texture, such as are common 

 not lac Imm ihe seashore in Massachusetts 'I'h,. 

 I.umdatiod i>M;ks are g.-ounded below ii,e action 

 of the frost— the fifsteom-ses are ilonble, capiicd 

 with a single binder half way up-them again 

 .It^ubled, and finally capped at the top with an- 

 other bmder. The w,dl is unique and beantilid 

 , ill appeanmce— such as we have no where else 

 -•^een. The name of the Scotchman who mainly 

 coiislructs this uall is Duncan. When the stones 

 are drawn to the grotind, two hands will break 

 and prepare them and the ground, and lay, as a 

 day's work, two i-ods. 



Particdlaily gratified with our visit at Indian 

 llill, tarrymg over night and the .second day till 

 noon, having been entertained with many th'in.'s 

 both new and »M, as well within doors as wit'h- 

 out-alter hesitating in the various iiivilations to 

 go and spend the Sabbath in different towns and 

 neighborhoods, anyone of which would be both 

 new and mterestnig— the scale was turned in fii- 

 vor of North An<lover with the son and family of 

 that estimable patriot and physician, Hon. Thom- 

 as Kittredgc, om- aciiuaintance of auld lang syne 

 Parting with our generous host and his lady our 

 way from West Newbury was westerly of By- 

 field in .Hght of its steeples to Georgetown, foi- 

 meily a part of Rowley. 



This vilhige has grown in population from 

 about 500 to 2000 in habitants in the space- of •, 

 few years. A great business in the manufac- 

 ture ot shoes of various kinds is carried on 

 here. Around the town the effects of a prosper- 

 ous village population are seen in the improvin" 

 agriculture surrounding them— in the cleanliness 

 and neatness upon and around the painted dwel- 

 lings and whitewashed barns and outhouses— in 

 the numerous apple, pear, peaclvpiinceand plum 

 trees surrounding many a residence of some 

 mechanic, or farmer, or clergyman, or doctor, and 

 m the hue state of the roads and bridges as we 

 pass along. 



From "Georgetown towards Andover we at 

 once mount over a steefi smooth road one of the 

 large hills we have described, which is crowned 

 on the south end wiih a beautiful forest "rove 

 down which we overlook the town as we^do a 

 map At the top of this eminence and alon.^ a 

 hue larin lying upon it, in the extreme distance 

 we saw distinctly in a clear sky and atmosphere, 

 I Mount Washington, encircled on either side like 

 ii fat mother with her brood of children in her 

 lap and her white chemisette in front, coming 

 down to US at the extreme distance of a hundred 

 and hity miles as near to the eye as ihe inferior 

 mountains only some twenty miles off; 



Soon we pass into the lower irrounds and en- 

 ter upon an air-line road whicirat first we took 

 to be the Salem and Andover turnpike, but on 

 inquiry found it not a nominal turnjiike hut -i 

 jMiblie road conslructed forty yeaivs ago mainly 

 by the money of the then merchant prince o"f 

 iN'evyburyport, William Bartlett, for the more 

 really transport of bricks from that plaee lo An- 

 dover, with which to erect the edifices of the 

 Theological Seminary, which, under its founders 

 and instructors, several of whom, and among 

 them Ihe venerable Wooils and Stuart, have re- 

 mained in their positions from first t<i last, has 

 now arrived at that high eminence that has ii'iade 

 It the pride ol' ils denomiiialion. On this high 

 road we passed for the first time through the 

 humble town of Boxford— humble from it.? smal- 

 ler dimensions and its small.;r villages. The 

 church in Boxford, of wliicli the venerable Rev. 

 Doct. Eaton hail been pastor more than half a 

 century, is situaled only about three miles from 

 the north church in .'\ndover of which the Rev. 

 Or. Loring has been |>astor now somewhere 

 about thirty years. The morrow was the last 

 Sabbath of the connexion of Doctor Eaton with 

 his charge: instead of giving a farewell in his 



an oveiflow of eelmg loo mighty for the tremu- 

 oiLsold age of theoc,ogen„riai0.e exchanged 

 m the aliernoon »,th his Andover neighbor 

 wierewehadlhepleasineofhearingaprelch: 

 ei ol he tihl Arminian laiih ofa fbrmer century 

 --n.ild m doctrine, complacent in reproof, meelf 

 and lowly m persuasion. 



A beaiitiiiil lake, say a mile one way, by two 

 miles the other, lies as hctwe.^i Boxfi)r<i and An- 

 'lover. it IS the source of water from which on 

 a stream pel haps not over two miles in len-th 

 are two considerable factories, the one of cotroii 

 ami the other of woolen clolh. It is remarkable 

 that will, this source, being ihe issue of springs 

 among the hills in this near distance, ihe supply 

 of water is more enduring and greater in a se- 

 vere drought than that of the larger Shawslieen 

 river in the westerly part of Andover, having its 

 sources in numerous ponds and sunken suami.s 

 .some twenty miles to the south. Andover is 

 peculiarly a town of tliclories and manuliicturcs. 

 I'pon the bhawsheen every drop of water is u.sed 

 over and over. Here are manuliicturesof all the 

 various kinds of machinery : here the Marlands 

 have lor many years pursued the successful busi- 

 ness ol making fine woolen.", broadcloths and 

 kerseymeres: here is a mannflieture offiax,slioe 

 thread, twine, &c., »l,ich has only a protection 

 of the present tariff of no more than fifteen per 

 cent but w nch, in ils inliint state, has more need 

 ol that kind ot protection than cotton which re- 

 ceives trom 50 to 150 per cent. The article of 

 shoe thread alone consumed in Massachusetts 

 and even m Essex countv— an article which in' 

 times not long since used to call occasionally for 

 the use ol the himily band wheel tlom the wife 

 or daughter of the shoemaker— is of suliicient 

 magnitude to require many tons of fiax : and it is 

 iint a poor compliment to yankee enterprise that 

 the mam part of the shoe thread used is import- 

 ed from the north of Ireland, and even the thread 

 made here is not of our own flax but of that ar- 

 ticle imported both from Belgium and Ireland 

 Such a manutacture of fiax as that at Andover 

 deserves all the patronage which business will 

 give It. 



Dr. Joseph Kittredge resides at North Ando- 

 ver, in the mansion of his fhlher, one of lho.se 

 capacious wooden houses of high finish, square 

 loot and three stories, such as we have sometimes 

 seen erected by men of wealth. The elder Dr 

 Kiiiredge was Ihe father of a fine family of sons 

 and daughters, as the younger is of one still 

 more nnmerons and of the highest promi.se The 

 man u ith one child is in danger of s|)oiline him- 

 the man of two or three will have good fortune"' 

 to instruct them to be |iroteclors of themselves- 

 the father of seven or eight, nine times in ten' 

 finds his children not only able to take cfiar^xe o? 

 thein.selves at the proper age, but u sohiee lo the 

 cares ot the man of property and the siippo« o-t^ 

 parents ileslitnte. The younger Dr. Iv. lias sons 

 and danghlers, we believe, eight in number: of 

 these the eldest, not yet having eomplcied his 

 medical college sturlies,is liraclicaDy u physician, 

 supplying with his father the wants of the sick 

 as the sole practitioners of North Andover, and 

 the surrounding neighborhood. The Doctor be- 

 sides his profession of physic and surgery, prac- 

 tices also as the larmer and nKinufacturer. He has 

 someot the fiiircst oxen we have seen any where- 

 lis swme would do credit to the best lalteniiiff 

 husbandman : he carries on a Incralive business 

 m luaking cider vinegar; and he prides himself 

 in the orchard set out and grafted with his own 

 hands. Iron, which he picks one to two hundred 

 liarrels ol the better winter apples each year Of 

 iiears and peaches of the better sort he has a 

 I prolusion. Such has been Ins success in the li-nit 

 I hue that he is making arrangemenis liir young 

 orchards on other open fields." Asa manulhctui- 

 er tins gentleman was an original and principal 

 owiiftr ol Ihe woolen mill upon ihe short slrcani 

 we have described in the northeast part of Ando- 

 ver— an establishment ihat has never flagged from 

 the commencement, and has coniinued the best 

 j-art of thirty year.s. Dr. K. also with his iiei.rh- 

 bor Hon. Gay ton P. Osgood, are the two only 

 Andover owners in the contemplated new city of 

 Essex. The mansion house, now so well fifled 

 by the Doctor and his liimily, as we have said 

 was erected by his failicr fifty years ago: its inte- 

 rior hnish was of that finer polish which thcj 

 required clear pine without a knot. The boaicfa 



