"--Col. George Reid and Capt. David M'Clary, also
citizens of Londonderry, were "distinguished and brave"
officers.--"Major Andrew M'Clary, a native of this town
[Epsom], fell at the battle of Breed's Hill ."--Many of these
heroes, like the illustrious Roman, were ploughing when the
news of the massacre at Lexington arrived, and straightway left
their ploughs in the furrow, and repaired to the scene of
action. Some miles from where we now were, there once stood a
guide-post on which were the words, "3 miles to Squire
MacGaw's."
But generally speaking, the land is now, at any rate, very barren
of men, and we doubt if there are as many hundreds as we read
of. It may be that we stood too near.
Uncannunuc Mountain in Goffstown was visible from Amoskeag, five
or six miles westward. It is the north-easternmost in the
horizon, which we see from our native town, but seen from there
is too ethereally blue to be the same which the like of us have
ever climbed. Its name is said to mean "The Two Breasts," there
being two eminences some distance apart.
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