within the next five years. The
sui'face is uneven, rising in numer-
ous swells, but the larger portion
can be cultivated. The soil is very
good and produces excellent crops
of corn, etc. There are some very
fine farms, under a high state of
cultivation. The value of its ag-
ricultural products exceeds that
of any other town in the county.

Elevations. Squamanagonnick
Hill is the highest elevation, and
constitutes a considerable part of
several valuable farms.

Rivers. Salmon Falls River
washes the eastern border of the
town; Cocheco River runs through
the whole length of the town, and
nearly through the centre; Isin-
glass River crosses the southerly
corner, just before its junction
with the Cocheco River. Both
Salmon Falls and Cocheco rivers
furnish abundant water power,
which is being improved, to some
extent.

Villages. Near the centre of the
town on Cocheco River, stands the
principal village, formerly called
“ Norway Plains.” In point of
thrift, business, wealth, and the en-
terprising spirit of its inhabitants,
it is equaled but by few villages
in the State. Its manufactures
and trade are considerable, and
very important. There are located
in this village the Norway Plains
Manufacturing Company, (three
mills) employing 350 males and
females; three shoe manufactories,
employing 450 males and females, a
large axe handle manufactory,
a door, sash and blind factory, two
carriage manufactories, a tannery,
lumber mills, also blacksmiths, car-
penters, shoemakers, tin and the
various other kinds of mechanical
shops common to enterprising
and growing villages. Besides,
there are three church edifices,
four school houses, a bank, two ho-
tels, forty stores, of all kinds, sev-
eral eating houses, a newspaper of-
fice,three express offices, telegraph,
insurance, lawyers’, physicians’,
and various other offices, too num-
erous to mention. Some of the
business blocks are fine, substan-
tial buildings. The streets are
wide and in many places finely
shaded with the elm or maple It
is a beautiful village, and all who
reside there feel proud to ac-
knowledge it. The various lines
of railroads form a junction in this
village.

East Rochester is a pleasant
and growing village, on the
Portland & Rochester Railroad.
Here are three woolen mills, em-
ploying 200 males and females,
three churches, school houses,
a post office, several stores and va-
rious kinds of mechanical shops.

Gonic Village has two woolen
mills, employing 120 males and fe-
males. There are two banks,
a church, a school house, several
stores, a hotel, post office, &c. It is
a very pleasant village, and is the
residence of some of the most
prominent men in the State.

Employments.    Rochester can

justly be called one of the princi-
pal manufacturing towns of the
State, though its agricultural pro-
ductions are valuable. The annual
value of woolen goods manufactur-
ed, in eight mills, isSl, 142,000; over

700.000 pairs of boots and shoes are
manufactured; $ 9,000 worth of
carriages are made; 72,000 lbs.
splits, 18,600 sides sole leather, and

4.000 calf skins are annually pro-
duced; 200,000 shingles, 1,200,000
feet of boards, &c., are sawed; be-