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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in the cel-lar-wall of a house, near the presentacademy, which was formerly inhabitedbv one of his friends. Hatfield, one mile from Hadley, onthe west side of the river, is much de-voted to the wintering of cattle raisedon the neighboring hilly country. Thegrass is very fine, and the barns arelarge; which, with the appearance ofthe houses, gives the place an air ofsubstantial agricultural wealth. Thecattle are bought, stabled, and fatted. Amhkrst, situated on elevated ground,is five miles from Hadley, and off theriver toward the northeast. Amherst. College, in this town, i-anksamong the most respectable in NewEngland. The situation occupied bythe buildings is pleasant, commanding arich, extensive, and varied view, partlyover the meadows of Connecticut river,with mountains seen in different direc-tions. The retired situation is highlyfavorable to studv and eood order, as itselevation and pure air are conducive tohealth. The number of students in 1846was about two hundred and fifty. The
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106 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. president, Dr. Humphries, is also pro-fesscir of mental and moral philosophyand divinity. There are six other pro-fessors, and a teacher of French andSpanish, a teacher of mathematics, anda tutor of Latin and Greek. The Sugarloaf is an isolated hill ofa conical form, about three miles southof Deerfield. The way by which weapproach it, lies nearly along the oldroad which led thither throuijh the wil-derness, in 1(375, when it was desertedby the settlers, and Captain Lothropwas despatched, with a body of eightysoldiers and wagoners, to bring off thearrain. At the foot of this mountain isthe small village of Bloody Brook, andnear the spot where a bridge crossesthe stream, Captain Lothrt)p was am-busiied. by about eight hundred Indians.The place was a marshy piece of ground;and some traces of the road, which wasformed of logs, are still to be seen, run-ning through the fields without crossingat the bridge. The coTivoy halted atthis place, and

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