borhood to examine her. The council met and acted. The report of the Rev. John Hale, of Beverly (probably chairman), is before me.

It reads,

"This touching Madam Elizabeth Morse: She being reprieved, her husband desired us to discourse her, which we did. Her discourse was very christian, and she still pleaded her innocence of that which was laid to her discharge. We did not esteem it prudence for us to pass any definite sentence upon one under her circumstances, yet we inclined to ye more charitable side."

After this examination the court permitted her to return home, where she never gave further occasion for slander, dying the death of a hope

His

ful Christian not many years after. And the mischievous grandsonwhat of him? He went to Beverly, married, had children, died. great grandson lives to-day. He, descendant of William, over wires that Anthony's descendant made to do noble work, sends this message, written on paper made by a descendant of Robert, to Miss Russell, representing Samuel Morse and Oliver Cromwell:

"The witchery that was concerned with Goody Morse must have been the enterprise that inspired to telegraphy, paper-making. and writing; and which helps to bear the prestige of a glorious name!"

1. MOOSILAUKĖ.

This mountain is a huge mass of rock 4,811 feet high. It presents a grand appearance from whatever point viewed. From the east or west it shows a south peak, a high crest, and a blue dome, lying almost in a north and south line. The peak and the crest are bald; the blue dome is covered with a dense forest of fir.

The correct way of spelling the name is Moosilauke. Its meaning and origin have been the subjects of some discussion. We shall try to state, with perhaps a few digressions, how it has been spelled, what it means, and what has been said of its origin. The first mention of this mountain we have met-we wish we could find an earlier one-is by Samuel Holland, Esq. He was the surveyor of the King's woods, northern New Hampshire, in 1773–’74 ; and on his map of the state, published in 1784, appears "Mooselock Mount"" (Moo-se-lock). It is located in what was the town of Fairfield, a part of which is now Woodstock. From whom he learned the name and its orthography, or whether or not he ever knew its meaning, we should certainly like to know.

In 1791 Dr. Belknap, historian of New Hampshire, published a map of the state to illustrate his forthcoming history. On it, in bold round print, is "Mooshelock M." (Moo-she-lock), anh having been put in the second syllable of the name as Holland spelled it. Why he changed the spelling of the word, or what the name means, he does not tell us.

Two years later, 1793, he published his History of New Hampshire, and in Vol. III, p. 32, he says, in describing the mountains of the state,- Thirtymiles north of this [Grand Monadnock] lies Sunapee Mountain, and forty-eight miles farther in the same direction is Mooshelock.'"

These are all the authors we have met who mention Mooselock or Mooshelock previous to 1800. After this date reference to this mountain is much more frequent; and some writers make a farther change in the orthography of its name.

The first to do this was Dr. Dwight, once president of Yale college. In

his

Travels," written about 1803, Vol. I, p. 31, he says, "The principal eminences in the White Mountains are Monadnock, in Jaffrey and Dublin: Sunapee, in Fishersfield, twentyseven miles east of Charlestown; Mooshelock or Moosehillock, eight miles from Haverhill," etc.

But Lewis, in his map of New Hampshire, Phila., 1804, in Arrowsmith & Lewis's General Atlas, seems to prefer "Mooshelock m," and thus spells it.

D. R. Preston, also, in his " Wonders of Creation," Boston, 1807, on page 27, copying from Dr. Belknap, speaks of Mooshelock" mountain.

Farmer & Moore, in their Gazetteer of New Hampshire, 1823, the best work of the kind of this state, say, on page 190.- Moosehillock, or Mooshelock, is a noble and lofty eminence in the S. E. part of Coventry [Benton], and ranks amongst the

But that the true orthography is Moo-she-lock, S. G. Goodrich, in his Pictorial Geography, Boston, 1841, Vol. II, p. 135, thus clinches it: "Between the Merrimack and the Connecticut, in the south-west part of this state, there extends a ridge from S. to N., called the White Mountain Ridge. The loftiest summits of this are-Monadnock, 3,254 feet high; Sunapee, Kearsarge, Carr's Mountain, and Mooshelock,' called by a corruption Moosehillock."

The spelling of the name, Moosehil-lock, a corruption according to Goodrich, probably originated about 1803. Dr. Dwight visited Newbury, Vt., several times, and in his book made glowing mention of the mountain: Behind the village of Haverhill, at a distance of seven or eight miles, Moosehillock, a stupendous elevation, always reminding me of that description of Milton's

The mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky,rose to the height of four thousand five hundred feet, covered with snow on the summit, of a dazzling whiteness, but gray and grizzly as the eye descended towards the base. This contrast of summer and winter, of exquisite beauty and the most gloomy grandeur, had the appearance of enchantment, and left an impression which can never be forgotten until

every image shall fade out of the memory." "Dwight's Travels," Vol. II, p. 318.

Morse's American Gazeteer, 1804, spells the name Moose-hil-lock, and gives its origin: "Moosehillock [is] the highest of the chain of mountains in New Hampshire, the White Mountains excepted. It takes its name from having been formerly a remarkable range for moose, and lies 70 miles W. of the White Mountains. From its N. W. side proceeds Baker's river, a branch of the Pemigewasset, which is principal branch of Merrimack. On this mountain snow has been seen from the town of Newbury, Vermont, on the 30th of June and the 31st of August; and on the mountains intervening, snow, it is said, lies the whole year."

Morse's Geography, 1804, also spells the name "Moosehillock." Parish's Geography, 1807, page 36, gives Moosehillock."

G A. Thompson's Geographical Dictionary of America, London, 1812, and based upon the earlier work by Alcedo, the Spanish author, Vol. III, p. 337, says," Moosehillock takes its name from its having been formerly a remarkable range for moose."

Carrigain's celebrated map, 1816; Merrill's N. H. Gazeteer, 1817; T. G. Bradford's Comprehensive Atlas, N. Y., 1836; Farmer's Monthly Visitor, Hon. Isaac Hill, 1839; Barstow's History of New Hampshire, 1842; Haskell & Smith's U. S. Gazetteer, 1843; Mitchell's World, 1847; and McCullough's Universal Gazeteer, 1852,-all spell the name Moosehillock.