Place of Pines

 

This name was applied to the land upon the Merrimack, between Litchfield and the river, on account of its being covered with pines. It afterwards became to be applied to the falls in the Merrimack, and to this river. These falls still retain the name of Cohasset, while the name of the river has been corrupted into "Cohas," and the river itself has been diminished to a brook, in common parlance. It has thus been shorn of its dignity, the better to distinguish it, from the Merrimack river into which it empties.

 

 

The name river applied to both streams of water, led to frequent misapprehension, and the smaller was designated as a brook, to prevent such misapprehension.

 

 

 

 

 

But it is essential that this water be pure water. If it be impure, laden with dissolved substances, infected with disease-bearing germs and impregnated with an undue amount of mineral matter, it be-_comes the most dangerous thing which can be taken into the sys-_tem, ill health and disease following its use.

 

It is unfortunately true that the public water supplies of our cities and towns are far from pure, despite the efforts of Boards of Health and city governments, and the increasing congestion of population in this country is constantly making it more and more difficult to find unpolluted water sources of sufficient size.

 

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