from it a picture of loveliness is spread out before the beholder,- -a picture of quiet beauty that cannot be surpassed. The glorious" Crystal hills," the various forms and shapes of four hundred lesser peaks, mirrorlike lakes, and, lovelier far than anything else, forty miles of the Connecticut valley, dotted with farms and villages and clustering woods, while its own waters as they flow so placidly and silently along, and other streams coming down from the surrounding mountains to join their waters with his in their majestic course to the sea, seem like silver threads in an embroidery of emerald. To the Mt. Prospect House it is only one hour's drive over a good carriageroad from the Lancaster House, and those who love nature in her quiet and still beautiful forms and moods should not fail to see it from that point. Sunset or sunrise viewed from the summit of the mountain is gorgeous and glorious, or sombre and spectral, as the variously tinted clouds and mists may take shapes and hues.

The Lancaster House is one of the best hotels in the state, whether taken as a place of public entertainment, or as a resort for the pleasureseeker, or of rest and refreshment for the weary traveller. It was built by the Messrs. Lindsey on the site of the "Old" Lancaster House, which was burned in 1879, and opened to the public Nov. 29, 1882.

Mr. John Lindsey, who is associated with his son, Ned A. Lindsey, in the management of the Lancaster House, has been intimately connected with the travelling public and the interests of Lancaster for a good many years, having purchased the Coös

Hotel, then the leading hotel of Coös county, in 1849; built the first Lancaster House in 1857, and managed it for several years; was proprietor of the Eagle Hotel in Concord from 1862 to 1866; built the extension of the B. C. & M. Railroad from Whitefield to Northumberland during the years 1869, 1870, and 1871; for five years, from 1873 to 1878, was proprietor of the famous Fabyan House; has conducted the Ocean House at Old Orchard Beach, and the Preble House, Portland, Maine, and for a while a hotel in Georgia. His reputation as a landlord is of the highest. The Lancaster House is fitted most admirably for the comfort of guests, being heated by steam and lighted by gas, and from the neatness and thoroughness of its furnishing, its roominess and airiness, is all that can be desired. It embellishes the village, everywhere surrounded with objects of beauty.

Taking Lancaster as the shire town of the county, and as the centre of trade, of education, of wealth, and of population for a large section of country, with her enterprise, talent, and social advantages, she is highly favored; but the glory of the town is in her scenery, encompassed about by the mountains, and the valley is a charmed spot. Starr King said,— "The drives about Lancaster for interest and beauty cannot be surpassed, and "grand combinations, too, of the river and its meadows with the Franconia range and the vast White Mountain wall are to be had in short drives." In whatever direction one may go he is delighted with some new burst of beauty, some lovely form of tree and feature of landscape.

The town of Dover, N. H., originally embraced within its limits the present towns of Somersworth, Rollinsford, Newington, Madbury, Durham, and Lee. The land in the town was voted to the settlers from time to time in public town-meeting, held in the old meeting-house on Dover Neck. These grants of land were from ten to four hundred acres each, and were laid out by the lotlayers, chosen in annual townmeeting. The record of the surveys and bounds of these grants made by the lot-layers, now a part of Dover town records, furnishes the names by which some of the localities were called in the infancy of the settlement. The common lands of the town were divided among the inhabitants in 1732, and the land grants by the town ceased.

ASH SWAMP (THE). There was an ash swamp, so called as early as 1694, between Nock's marsh and Barbadoes pond, and another between Salmon Falls and Cochecho.

BACK RIVER. This name is found in these land grants as early as 1649, and was given to the stream which flows into the Pascataqua river on the west side of Dover Neck. The settlers gave the name to the stream from its mouth up to the head of tidewater, where Sawyer's Woollen Mills now stand; above tide-water at the first falls it became Belleman's Bank river, and now called Bellamy river.

BARBADOES POND. On the Littleworth road, four miles from the city hall, and lying in the present town

of Madbury. It was so called as early as 1693, and “ commonly so called" in 1701. Is it not the same as Turtle" pond, which is mentioned in a land grant in 1719? The name is retained to this day.

BARBADOES SPRING. The spring lying south of the pond, and which supplies the south side of Dover with water, was thus called as early as 1701.

BARBADOES SWAMP. So called in 1693, and also called the ash swamp. It lay south of the pond of the same name.

BEACH HILL. It was It was commonly so called" in 1652, and is the long hill, partly in Madbury and partly in Durham, which lies near and to the south-west of Hicks's hill, and just south of the road leading from Hicks's hill to Lee. At the west end was an Indian burial-ground, and in 1652 it was spoken of as atty Indian graves, att Beach Hill."

BEARD'S CREEK. So called as early as 1672. It is the brook which flows into Oyster river on the north side, next below the falls of the same.

BEAVER DAM (THE GREAT). In 1659 Capt. Thomas Wiggin bad a grant of land" neare ye Great Beaver Dam, on ye south branch of Bellomans Bank river," and the name is retained in land grants down to 1720. The "Beaver Pond Meaddow" was mentioned in 1693. It was one quarter of a mile above the confluence of the Mallego and Belloman's Bank rivers.

Where was the Little Beaver Dam, whose existence is implied in the above title?

BELLAMY. A locality and a river. As a locality, the neighborhood about the falls lately occupied by William Hale. As a river, the whole river upon which are Sawyer's mills, from its source down as far as tide-water; below the head of tide-water it becomes Back river. For the origin of the name, see Belleman's Bank."

BELLEMAN'S BANK. The steep bank on the north side of the stream now known as Bellamy river, near Dunn's bridge at Sawyer's upper mill. The stream is often mentioned in the early land grants as "the freshett that flows past Belleman's Bank." The origin of this name has always baffled those who are curious in such matters, and the correct solution, as we think, is now for the first time offered.

A deed on the old Norfolk Co., Mass., records, shows that "Mr." William Bellew owned a house and twenty acres of land on the north side of the stream in 1644, and that he sold it to Christopher Lawson. And in 1648, when the Great Cochecho marsh was divided among the settlers, we find one lot set apart "for Mr. William Belley "-denoting that he, although absent, yet had interests here. The prefix of distinction shows him to have been a man of good position. We find him in Oyster River parish (now the town of Durham) in 1647, as a witness to a deed given by Darby Field, and he signed his name WILL: BELLEw.

If Mr. William Bellew, or "Belley," was absent, and some man in his employ occupied his premises at the Bank above mentioned, then the occupant would be, in common parlance, "Mr. Belley's man," which corre

sponds with other similar cases on the Dover records. And the bank, on which these premises were situated, would easily be designated as "Mr. Belley's Man's Bank." The ready contraction of these names into Belleman's Bank" was natural. It became" Bellamy" Bank at about 1800, and afterwards the name, which had become applied to that entire neighborhood, became restricted to the locality above the original bank, where Mr. William Hale, now of Dover, purchased, who at once dropped the word "Bank" from the name, and simply called the locality, and the stream, Bellamy.

BELLEMAN'S BANK RIVER. So called as early as 1646, in land grants. It is the stream which becomes Back river at the head of tide-water, at Sawyer's Woollen Mills. The settlers always applied the name to the fresh water part of the stream above the falls; Back river was always used by them to indicate the stream below the falls at the head of tide-water.

It is written in the land grants, Belleman's bank, Beleman's bank, Belliman's bank, Beliman's bank, Belloman's bank, Bellomay bank, Belemye bank, and Bellemie bank. And in the later town records, from about the year 1800 to 1840, it is written Bellamy bank.

When Mr. William Hale, now of Dover, purchased the land and falls next above Sawyer's mills, he at once dropped the word "bank" from the locality and from the stream, and they are now known as "Bellamy." For the origin of the name, see Belleman's Bank.

BLACK WATER. A locality so called as early as 1693. It lies north of

Cochecho pond, and the brook running through it is called Blackwater brook. BLIND WILL'S NECK. Blind Will, a sagamore of the Indians about Cochecho, was a friendly Indian in the service of Major Richard Waldron. In March, 1677, Major Waldron sent out eight friendly Indians to obtain information as to the presence of hostile Indians. This party was surprised by a band of Mohawks, and only two or three escaped. Blind Will was dragged away by the hair, and, being wounded, perished on the neck of land at the confluence of the Isinglass and Cochecho rivers. neck has ever since been called Blind Will's Neck.

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BLOODY POINT. The point of land in Newington opposite Dover Point. The name arose, in 1631, from a bloodless dispute, as to the jurisdiction of the spot, between Capt. Walter Neal, the agent of the Portsmouth settlement, and Capt. Thomas Wiggin, the agent of the Dover settlement. The name came at length to denote all of Dover's territory on the south side of the Pascataqua river, and is retained as the name of the point to this day. Whitehouse's map of Dover, in 1834, has incorrectly placed Bloody Point on the north side of the Pascataqua, viz., on Dover Neck.

BRANSON'S CREEK. This name was given as early as 1653 to a tributary on the western side of Oyster river, near its mouth.

BRISTOL. On an old map, in 1634, the settlement at (now) Dover was called Bristol.

BUNKER'S CREEK. It flows into Oyster river, eastern side, and is near the Bunker garrison.

BUNKER'S GARRISON. Bunker's garrison, which was successfully defended in the Indian massacre at Oyster river, on July 17, 1694, and which stands to-day in an excellent state of preservation, is on the east side of the river, on the road leading from the mouth to the first falls.

CALVES PASTURE (THE). The name given to a town pasture as early as 1652, when it was laid out. It was on Dover Neck, bordering on Back river, and contained thirty-six acres in 1722, when it was divided among the settlers.

CAMPIN'S ROCKS. This name was given as early as 1660 to a high granite ledge on the western bank of the Cochecho river, about a mile below the first falls, and which by projecting into the river constitutes the "Narrows." Tradition says a man named Campin, being pursued by Indians, was obliged to jump from the ledge into the river in order to escape.

CAMPRON RIVER. This name was given, as early as 1647, to what was afterwards called the Lamper-eel river, and now the Lamprey river.

CEDAR POINT. So called in 1652. It is the point of land on the west of the mouth of Back river, and lies north of Goat island.

CHARLES POINT. This name was given, as early as 1660, to a point at the entrance of Little bay, in Oyster river parish. From Charles Adams, who lived near here.

CLAY POINT. A point of land on the east side of Dover Neck, and so called as early as 1656.

COCHECHO. The Indian name of the falls on the river, where the city of Dover now stands. It was spelled by the first settlers in various ways,

viz., Cutt-che-choe, Co-che-cha, and Cochecho. The settlers applied the Indian name of the falls to the stream which flows over the falls and which is lost in the Newichawannock at Cochecho Point, and also to the settlement clustered about the falls. It is retained as the name of the stream to this day. The error of the engrossing clerk of the N. H. legislature gave the manufacturing company that built the Dover Cotton Mill the title Cocheco M'f'g Co., instead of Cochecho.

COCHECHO GREAT HILL. So called as early as 1659, and is what is now commonly, but erroneously, called Garrison Hill. See Great Hill."

COCHECHO LOG SWAMP. Thus named as early as 1659; it was between Cochecho and Belloman's Bank rivers, and above tide-water. There are good reasons for thinking it was was also called " Capt. Waldron's Logging Swamp," which see.

COCHECHO MARSH. Sometimes called Cochecho Fresh Marsh. It was thus named as early as 1648, when it was surveyed and cut up into lots, and divided among the settlers. It was immediately north of the "Great Hill at Cochecho." The "" 'cartway" which led to it was laid out as early as 1648, and is now the Garrison Hill road. The Half-way Swamp" was on the south of the "Great Hill," on the opposite side of the "cartway" from said hill.

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COCHECHO POINT. So called as early as 1655. The point of land between the Cochecho and Newichawannock rivers, at their confluence.

COCHECHO POND, or "The pond att Cochecho." This pond was thus named as early as 1674; and as early as 1650 it was called "the great

pond" in the land grants. It retains its name on all Dover maps, except the Hitchcock County Atlas of 1871. It is now commonly called Willand's pond, from two generations of Willands who resided at the head of it.

COCHECHO RIVER. The river on which the city of Dover stands, and which flows in the Newichawannock at Cochecho Point.

COFFIN'S GARRISON. On the 28th of June, 1689, Peter Coffin had a garrison on what is now Central avenue, Dover, and between Orchard and Waldron streets. It was taken in the Indian assault on Cochecho on the above date.

Peter's son, Tristram Coffin, on the same date, had a garrison on the high ground in the neighborhood of the Belknap grammar school-house on Silver street, which he successfully defended at the time of the massacre.

COMMON (THE). There was one on Dover Neck as early as 1649; another was laid out, in 1654, on the point between Fresh creek and the Cochecho river; and another was laid out, in 1675, comprising "all the land above Little John's creek, and west of the path that goes to Belomye Bank to be a common forever." The name soon after 1675 came to embrace all the ungranted lands in the town, which lands were divided among the inhabitants in 1732.

CURRIAL POINT. So called as early as 1720, and it was situated between St. Albon's cove and Quampheagan, on the west side of the Newichawannock river.

DAME'S POINT. The point between Fresh creek and Cochecho river, at their confluence. Dea. John Dame had the first grant there.