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 Tliursday, July 7, 1859. 



Field Meeting at Saugus. — Favored by a day of especi- 

 ally good promise, a company of more than a hundred mem- 

 bers and others, alighted from tlie train at 10 A.M., at 

 Saugus Center, a place combining very many attractions 

 for an occasion such as this. Two parties were immediate- 

 ly formed ; one of which, headed by B. F. Mudge Esq. of 

 Lynn and accompanied by Mr. Wilbur F. Newhall of Sau- 

 g"us as guide, took a direction toward the south and west 

 and visited the undulating lands and pleasant heights around 

 the village of Cliftondale. Making an ample circuit among 

 these, they at length emerged from the woods and found the 

 the easterly limit of their ramble at the " Jasper Rock" near 

 the river ; from which they returned to the rendezvous at 

 the Town Hall. The other party, led by C. M. Tracy Esq. 

 of Lynn, with the assistance of Mr. Joshua Howard of Sau- 

 gus, adopted an opposite course and sauntered along the riv- 

 er side, now in the fields and now on the highway, visiting the 

 "Cinder Banks," the woolen mills of Messrs. Scott and Fran- 

 ker, and such other objects as seemed worthy of note, till 

 they crossed the river and took the quiet and shady path 

 along the eastern side. With an occasional pause for rest 

 and enjoyment they at length arrived near the house of Mr. 

 Thomas Bayley, who learning the import and meaning of 

 the appearance of so large a company on his premises, ex- 

 pressed much interest in their objects and presented the ex- 

 plorers with a number of Indian relics, as arrow-heads and the 

 like, dug up on the spot where they then stood. Doubtless, 

 in former years the estuary of Saugus River formed a favorite 

 I'esortfor the red men as affording a productive fishing ground, 

 to say nothing of the natural beauties of the place which time 

 has not yet destroyed, though little has probably happened 

 to improve them. Here the strollers abandoned the river 

 side, and by a path of sufficient rudeness, every way consid- 

 ered, finally reached the well known gorge known as "Pi- 



