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SUNDAY.


"The river calmly flows,
Through shining banks, through lonely glen,
Where the owl shrieks, though ne'er the cheer of men
Has stirred its mute repose,
Still if you should walk there, you would go there again."
^CHANNING.^


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"The Indians tell us of a beautiful River lying far to the south,
which they call Merrimack."

^Sieur de Monts^, _Relations of the jesuits_, 1604.


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SUNDAY.