are crowned with success. There are several
pleasant and thriving villages, in which are large
and valuable manufactures. Mrs. Fanny Shute,
who died in this town September, 1819, was re-
spected for her excellent qualities, and celebrated
for the adventures of her youth. When 13 months
old, she was taken to Canada by a party of In-
dians, and disposed of to the French, educated in
a nunnery, and after remaining 13 years in cap-
tivity, was redeemed and restored to her friends.
This town was originally a part of Exeter. 36
miles S. E. from Concord, and 12 W. by S. from
Portsmouth by railroad.

New Market, Ya., Shenandoah co. 1 mile E.
from the N. fork of Shenandoah River, a lit-
tle W. from Massanutten Mountain, and 139
miles N. W. from Richmond. Large manufac-
tures are carried on here. Iron is found in abun-
dance in the region. A beautiful cascade upon
the mountain is much admired.

New Marlboro\ Ms., Berkshire co. The first
improvements in this town were made in 1739,
by Mr. Benjamin Wheeler, from Marlboro'. The
surface is uneven, hilly, and stony. In the N.
W. part of the town is Six Mile Pond, so called
by some Indians, who lived 6 miles distant from
it, in Great Barrington, and who resorted to it for
the purposes of fishing. The outlet from this
pond is called Konkapot, from an Indian family
of that name, who lived by its side. Umpache-
ne Stream rises in the E. part of the town, and
passing by the centre, runs S. W., and empties
in the Konkapot. This stream derives its name
from an Indian. In the S. E. part of the town-
ship is a pond nearly 2 miles in circumference,
called Hermit Pond, which is the source of a
stream, which runs S. W. into Canaan. This
pond derived its name from the circumstance that a
hermit lived for several years on the south-eastern
side. In the W. part of the town is a cave. It has
several apartments of various dimensions, whose
sides and roof are limestone, on which stalactites
are continually forming. About a quarter of a mile
S. W. of the south meeting house is a rock, judged
to weigh 30 or 40 tons, so equally balanced on
another rot£, that a man may move it with his
finger. 24 miles S. from Pittsfield, and 133 W. by
S. from Boston.

New Milford,, Ct., Litchfield co. This town-
ship is hilly and broken, several mountainous
ridges extending through it. The soil is much
diversified, and where susceptible of cultivation,
it is generally good ; but on the whole more dis-
tinguished for grass than grain. There are, how-
ever, large quantities of excellent meadow ground;
but the pasturage is, on the whole, not abundant.
It is essentially a farming town. For some time
after the white people came here, an Indian chief,
or sachem, named Werauhamaug. had a palace
standing near the Great Falls, where he resided.
On the inner walls of this palace (which were
of bark, with the smooth side inwards) were pic-
tured every known species of beast, bird, fish, and
insect, from the largest to the smallest. The
town of New Milford was purchased of the col-
ony of Connecticut by a company of individuals
chiefly belonging to Milford, and was first settled
in 1707. The first bridge that was ever built over
the Housatonic River, from the sea to its source,
was built in this town in 1737. The village of
New Milford is very handsome; the streets are
wide and well shaped. The territory of this town
is larger than any other in the state. Large quan-
tities of granite and marble are found here. 35
miles from Bridgeport by the Houstonic Railroad.

New Milford, Pa., Susquehanna co., is drained
by Mitchell's and Salt Lick Creeks. Surface
hilly; soil clay and gravel. 185 miles N. from
Harrisburg.

Newnan, Ga., c. h. Coweta co. 106 miles W.
by N. from Milledgeville.

Newnanville, Fa., c. h. Alachua co. 72 miles
W. from St. Augustine, and 120 E. S. E. from
Tallahassee.

New Orleans, La. City and port of entry in the
parish of Orleans. Situated on the left bank
of the Mississippi River, about 100 miles from
its mouth, about 950 miles below the mouth of
the Ohio, and 1100 below the mouth of the Mis-
souri. It is distant from Baton Rouge, the capi-
tal of the state, 131 miles. For the distance from
other important places, see Grand Distance and
Table. The population, in 1810, was 17,240; in
1820, 27,-176 ; in 1830, 46,310; in 1840, 102,193;
in 1850, 119,285. The site of New Orleans, in
conformity to other parts of the banks of the
Mississippi in the same vicinity, is on an inclined
plane; the declivity falling very gently from
the margin of the river towards the swamp in
the rear. When the river is full, the surface of
the water is from 2 to 4 feet above the streets of
the city; and at any stage it is above the
swamps in the rear of the back sti-eets. To pre-
vent inundation, an artificial embankment, called
the Levee, has been built upon the river, at a
great expense, extending from Fort Plaquemine,
43 miles below '-the city, to 120 miles above it,
which is 4 feet high, and 15 feet wide. Directly
in front of the city, it affords a very pleasant
promenade. The city is built upon the concave
side of a bend in the river, extending, with its in-
corporated faubourgs, not less than 5 miles par-
allel to it, and, at right angles to the river, from
a quarter of a mile to a mile, giving to its outline
the form of a crescent, from which New Orleans
is familiarly denominated the “ Crescent City.''
The city proper lies near the middle of the curve,
extending along the river 1320 yards, and 700
yards back, having the faubourgs of St. Mary, Du-
plantier, and Annunciation above, those of Marig-
ny and De Clouet below, and another more de-
tached, in the rear, on the Bayou St. John. The
city proper is a parallelogram, with its side upon
the river. At each extremity of the length of
the city, the streets make an angle, to bring them
more nearly into the direction of the river in
those parts ; but between these points the streets
are straight. The city proper is traversed by 22
streets, forming 84 principal and 14 minor squares.
The houses are principally of brick; and the
more modern buildings, especially in the upper
part of the city, or second municipality, are gen-
erally 3 and 4 stories high, with elegant granite
fronts. Many of the houses in the outer parts
are surrounded with gardens, and ornamented
with orange trees. The view of the city, in as-
cending or descending the river, is beautiful.
During the season of business, between the 1st
of November and the 1st of July, the Levee, in
its whole extent, is crowded with vessels of every
size, from all quarters of the world, and with
hundreds of large and splendid steamboats,
barges, flat boats, &c. The river opposite the
city is half a mile wide, and from 100 to 160 feet
deep. It preserves the same width almost to its
entrance into the Gulf of Mexico. Any vessels