explained to the visitor by reference to the first large illustration, showing the peninsula, around which the Connecticut river runs six miles to gain one. This peninsula has been many times in danger of extinction as such, from the heavy floods, and the state has expended many thousands of dollars to prevent the river making an economical short cut through the centre of the town.
One of the features of illustration in this leaflet is very properly Hopkins Academy. There is hardly a town in the
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Commonwealth, with the population and property characteristics of old Hadley which can boast such a handsome and useful institution as this. The population of the town is not quite 1,700, and mostly agricultural at that, and yet its interest in the cause of education is and has been intense, from the days when (in 1669) the entire colony of Massachusetts Bay was appealed to for subscriptions to Harvard college. From the annals of this institution it may be seen that the people of Hadley gave £33, 15s., 3d.,
