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The chief objects of interest in this locality are Wen- 

 ham Lake and the Salem Water Works upon its shore. 

 To these more permanent features, nature, but four days 

 previous, had added the fortunately rare spectacle of the 

 path of a tornado, clearly defined by uprooted trees, and 

 houses demolished or twisted from their foundations. 



Wenham Lake, by reason of the picturesqueness of its 

 situation and the quiet beauty of its shore, has long 

 allured innumerable visitors, who have widely spoken its 

 praise. The selection of its waters to supply the city of 

 Salem, and the consequent construction of the necessary 

 reservoir and machinery upon its border, have greatly 

 added to its local reputation. But the purity of its 

 waters have long given it a transatlantic fame. About 

 the streets of London, and other English cities, one fre- 

 quently sees upon carts and signs, the words, "Wenham 

 Lake Ice." Probably not one-half of the ice thus adver- 

 tised, has really crossed the seas. We are suspicious 

 that the genuine value of the word Wenham, prefixed to 

 ice as indicative of excellence, has proved too great a 

 temptation to dealers who would affix some superlative 

 term to their productions . 



The reservoir on Chipman's Hill, and the engine and 

 pumping machinery, together with all the apparatus of 

 the Salem Water Works, received the first attention of 

 the Institute party. For here was not only one of those 

 proofs of human power, which make one more pleasingly 

 conscious of the possibilities of manhood, but enhancing 

 the beauty of the machinery, more than the floral decora- 

 tions, was the sense of partial ownership, which each 

 citizen of Salem might rightly feel. 



Capt. Daniel H. Johnson, the superintendent of the 

 works, by his clear and patient description of their de- 

 tails, won the gratitude of the entire party. 



