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RIVERS IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE.    585

tide water ; and the north-west head of Magalloway River is 2,917
feet. Improved power, 700

Ashuelot River is one of the most important streams, of its size,
in the State, in point of improved water power. Its principal
source is from ponds in Washington, and flowing thence, in a south-
westerly direction, through Marlow, Gilsum, Surry, Keene, Swan-
zey, Winchester, it empties into the Connecticut, at Hinsdale, near
Massachusetts line. Its principal branches are a stream coming
from Stoddard, through the north-west corner of Nelson, south-
east corner of Sullivan and north-west corner of Roxbury, to Keene ;
and one from Dublin, through Marlborough, to South-Keene,
where it joins the stream comiug from Stoddard. Also a stream
comes from Troy, through the south-west corner of Marlbo-
rough, and joins the Ashuelot in Swanzey. Nearly all of these
sources are from ponds which have been dammed, thus producing
large reservoirs and affording constant water power to the manufac-
tories on the streams below. The length of the river is about for-
ty miles, and it drains a basiu of 240,000 acres, or 375 square
miles. Its improved horse water power is about 3,600, with much
still unimproved. From its source to the Connecticut it has a fall
of nearly 1,000 feet.

Baker’s River is an important stream in Grafton County, and is
formed by two branches uniting in Wentworth. The north branch
has its source near Moosehillock, in Benton, whence it runs, in a
southerly course, through Warren, to Wentworth, receiving in its
passage a considerable stream issuing from Baker’s Upper Pond, in
the east part of Orford. The south branch rises in Orange, thence
flowing north through the easterly part of Dorchester, and uniting
with the north branch at the easterly part of Wentworth ; thence it
pursues a south-east and easterly course, through the southerly
part of Rumney and northerly part of Plymouth, where it forms a
junction with the Pemigewasset, just above Plymouth Village.
Gen. John Stark was captured by the Indians on this river, in the
township of Rumney, April 28,1752 ptiptam Baker at one time,
also, attacked a party of Indians aud/hefeated them at its mouth.
(See Plymouth.)    j

It drains a part or the whole of twelve towns, comprising an area
of about 150,000 acres, and has an improved horse water power of
about 1,250.

Back River, or Bellamy Bank, has its rise in Chesley Pond, in