Merrimac, a river rising among the White Mountains of New Hampshire, flowing south into Massachusetts, and falling into the Atlantic Ocean near Newburyport, after a course of 150 miles. It has numerous falls, affording immense water-power. The principal manufacturing towns on its banks are Manchester, Nashua, and Concord in New Hampshire, and Lowell and Lawrence in Massachusetts. It is navigable to Haverhill.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 144
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