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L.-LOWELL AND ITS OPERATIVES. ¦ - ¦ * ' ...
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Two hundred years ago, the Fawtuckets, a...
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Two Hundred Years Ago, The Fawtuckets, A...
Two hundred years ago , the Fawtuckets , a powerful tribe of Indianhad their chief settlement" at Wamesittract of land at
s , a the confluence _^ of the Merrimack and Concord rivers . The boundary of the old Indian " ital" and the present " city of spindles "
but little . The cap Merrimack , river on the Northand a trench , vary , , strikin * it just above Pawtucket Fallsextending in a semicircular
line on g the Southand terminatinat the , Merrimacka mile below the mouth of Concord , riverwas g the boundary of , Wamesit . It ,
included twenty-five hundred acres . The boundary line and extent of Lowell are nearly the same to-day . Traces of the Indian ditch ,
supposed to liave been thrown up in 1665 , are yet visible . These streams were the best " fishing grounds "' in New Englandand
, vast quantities of several varieties of fish were easily taken . The abundance of " sturgeon , " which in the Indian tongue was
Merrimack , gave the name to the river . The forest was well supplied with game , and Wamesit was a favourite location with the
natives . An artist at that period would here have found a wild picture .
The primeval forest , with its native animals , birds and flowers ; the impetuous waters of the Merrimack leaping over the rocksand
, dashing of bark up and into before foam them -wreath on s ; the on green its bank sward , cone , the -shaped trophies wigwanis of the
chase broug , ht down by , the unerring aim of the red hunter . Groups of Indian men resting from the fatigues of the hunt ; tall
, their straight laurels , sinewy —the form g s irdle grotesquel of human y decorated scalps ; . the Ly warriors ing near wearing them ,
on the grass , -their bows , arrows and other rude implements for hunting , or for fighting with other tribes . Athletes " shooting "
little the slun rap g ones upon ids in in the " birch fcheir back bark while canoes cradles . performing Motherl suspended y thei squaws r from menial with the labour the branch pappoose ; other of a
tree , thatby Dark stri -eyed ps maidens of When coloured , with the wind b well ark blows -developed interwoven , the cradle forms with will partiall rock brig . " ht y p concealed lumage ;
moccasins traying a love and of wampum ornament wroug even ht in w the ith wildest their own life . hands The , " and belle be " - to catch
of the tribe bending , like a supple willow , over the stream , a g The limpse arti of st could herself not in have nature ainted ' s mirror the . odours of the wild flowers ,
p or hev the innat one e ray belief of li in ght immortality in the darkened , her vague mind of ideas the of Indian a future maid life - _^ -
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/39/
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