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system of raising them in hills instead of the common, 

 method of beds. He then took up his favorite topic of 

 Geology and gave a description of the soil, rocks. &c., found 

 in the town. 



A. C. GOODELL, Jr. Esq. of Salem, being called on by the 

 Chair, said he rose cheerfully, to give an account of what he 

 had seen, in the delightful journey he had, to day, made 

 through Old Salisbury and this, her neighboring town. And 

 yet he could not but regret that, in the absence of the Rev. 

 Dr. Felt who, it had been hoped, would have prepared a pa- 

 per on the history of these towns to be read at this meeting 

 this subject could not be more fully and satisfactorily dis- 

 cussed than in the remarks which he proposed to offer. 



He then proceeded to say that a company of nine gentle- 

 men, accommodated in two carriages, driven by Mr. True 

 and the Hon. Streetcr Evans, composed the party of which 

 he had the pleasure of being a member, and which started 

 on its tour from the East Salisbury station immediately af- 

 ter the arrival of the train. On the way a conversation en- 

 sued as to the origin of the names of these towns ; and Mr. 

 Evans suggested that, as Salisbury contains no ponds within 

 its limits, it may have received its name from its resem- 

 blance in this particular to Salisbury in Wilts, in England. 

 But the speaker thought this conjecture hardly satisfactory, 

 inasmuch as Salisbury in 1640 the date of its^ incorpora- 

 tion, included the present town of Amesbury, which con- 

 tains several ponds. He was inclined to believe that its 

 name was changed from Colchester, its earlier .name, in 

 remembrance of the English home of some of its earliest 

 leading inhabitants perhaps, as some have supposed, the 

 Rev. William Worcester, its first minister, or more likely, 

 Christopher Batt, who was from Salisbury in England, 





