346 LoivelL — Geological Facts. 



describe are distinctly and strikingly exhibited, as may be seen in the 

 engraving. 



Miscellaneous RemarTcs. 



Were this the proper occasion, many considerations connected 

 with Lowell, not less interesting than its geology, might be stated. 

 The statistics of its vast manufactures, are too well known to need a 

 place in this work, and it is necessary for a stranger only to inspect 

 the establishments, in cotton and woollen and other branches, to 

 perceive that it would not be easy to find their rivals in the world 

 — for perfection and beauty of machinery, neatness, method and 

 quiet in the interior of the houses, ingenious and efficieht securities 

 against fire, means of personal safety and escape, civility, intelligence 

 and prevailing good morals among the laboring manufacturers, and a 

 high order of mind and principle both among the gentlemen, who 

 superintend, and those who (chiefly in Boston) sustain these flour- 

 ishing estabhshments, by their freely bestowed millions. 



The proprietors and managers of the manufactories, the profes- 

 sional men in Lowell, and a large number of intelligent and liberal 

 minded mechanics, and other citizens have united their efforts to 

 create and sustain a high intellectual, moral, and religious standard, 

 . among the many thousands whose labors give Lowell its fine pro- 

 ductions in the useful and ornamental arts, and its well deserved ce- 

 lebrity. 



Numerous churches of various denominations, with pastors acting 

 cordially together in doing good, evince, that greater interests than 

 those of manufactures, are not neglected ; a vigilant • and efficient 

 magistracy watch over the quiet and security of the citizens, which is 

 sometimes invaded by the worthless and abandoned, who always seek 

 a nestling place in manufacturing towns. 



Public lectures are given on various topics of useful knowledge, 

 not only by resident citizens but by persons invited from other 

 places, and sometimes from other states. 



A large Hall is now in the course of being created, by the associa- 

 ted mechanics of Lowell, and their friends, who intend, there, to fur- 

 nish ample accommodations for public lectures, for a public library, 

 for collections in natural history, for apparatus, and for every thing 

 else which may contribute to the public good. This spirit is widely 

 difllised in the manufacturing districts of New England, but more con- 

 spicuously in Massachusetts, than in any other state, and the gene- 



