Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Published: September 1971
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780395082508
First sentence: AT length, on Saturday, the last day of August, 1839, we two, brothers, and natives of Concord, weighed anchor in this river port; for Concord, too, lies under the sun, a port of entry and departure for the bodies as well as the souls of men; one shore at least exempted from all duties but such as an honest man will gladly discharge.