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" The shores we trod as barefoot boys, 



The nutted woods we wandered through, 

 To friendship, love, and social joys 

 We consecrate anew." 



" Kenoza ! o'er no sweeter lake 



Shall morning break or noon-cloud sail, 

 No fairer face than thine shall take 

 The sunset's golden veil." 



The rest of the company went as other attractions drew them. 



At 1 o'clock the company assembled at the Town Hall and partook 

 of their collation, where they found, in addition to the supplies they 

 carried with them, an abundance of hot tea and coffee, which added 

 much to the enjoyment of the feast. 



The party then repaired to the chapel of the North Congregational 

 Church, where the meeting was called to order by Dr. Geo. B. Loring, 

 of the Committee on Field Meetings, who appropriately congratulated 

 the assembly on the extraordinary bounteousness of the season, and 

 the peculiar privileges enjoyed by the people of the county in the Es- 

 sex Institute. 



He then introduced Vice-president S. P. FOWLER as chairman of the 

 meeting. 



Mr. Fowler, on taking the chair, remarked upon the interesting his- 

 tory of Haverhill as an old frontier town in the days of Indian war- 

 fare ; and recommended that its inhabitants should carefully save from 

 destruction all the old documents they might have in their houses, and 

 send them to the Institute for permanent preservation among its col- 

 lections. 



Letters were announced from, Prof. L. Agassiz, Cambridge (May 

 13) ; A. B. Ashby, Newburyport (June 21) ; Capt. N. E. Atwood, Prov- 

 incetown (June 19) ; Copley Avery, Boston (May 23) ; Prof. S. F. 

 Baird, Smithsonian Institution (May 19, June 9, 19) ; W. J. Seal, 

 Union Springs, N. Y. (May 24) ; C. A. Benjamin, Salem (May 14) ; 

 Rev. E. C. Bolles, Portland, Me. (June 8) ; Dr. Daniel Clarke, Flint, 

 Mich. (May 17) ; Gen. W. Cogswell, Salem (June 7) ; J. Colburn, Bos- 

 ton (June 4, 22); Congressional Library (June 5); W. S. Cook, Sa- 

 lem (May 18) ; Henry Davis, Decorah, Iowa (June 20) ; W. W. Dens- 

 low, New York (June 13, 23) ; T. A. Dickinson, Lewiston, Me. (June 

 23) ; Dr. A. S. Dudley, Salem (June 14) ; C. H. Halt, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 (May 9) ; J. P. Haskell, Marblehead (June 25) ; O. P. Hubbard, New 

 Haven, Ct. (June 11); W. H. Kerns, Boston (June 23); J. P. Lang- 

 worthy, Boston (June 29) ; Rev. Samuel Lockwood, Keyport, N. J. 

 (July 25) ; Horace Mann, Cambridge (May 18) ; Win. Merritt, Boston 

 (June 25) ; J. S. Moyer, Plumsteadville, Pa. (May 16) ; C. H. Nauman, 

 Lancaster, Pa. (June 6) ; S. A. Nelson, Georgetown (June 7) ; New 

 Bedford Public Library (May 6, 20, 25) ; New England Historic-Gen- 

 ealogical Society, Boston (April 22) ; New York Lyceum of Natural 



PROCEEDINGS ESSEX IXST., VOL. V. 20 FEB., 1868. 



