the capital of the state of New Hampshire, North America, stands on both sides of the Merrimac river, here crossed by several handsome bridges, 64 miles N.N.W. of Boston. It is connected by railways with Boston, Montreal, and other places; and has several large cotton factories, paper mills, potteries, and a variety of other industrial establishments. Its neighbourhood abounds in granite, which is exported. The state house is a hand-

some building of hewn granite. Pop. (1840) 4897; (1850) 5854.

one of the capitals of Middlesex county, state of Massachusetts, North America, situated on both sides of the Concord river, 17 miles W.N.W. of Boston. Pop. 2249. It was here, on the 19th April 1775, that the first forcible resistance was made to the British power; and a handsome monument now marks the spot where the first blood was spilt in the war of the revolution. The monument is a granite obelisk 25 feet high, with a square base 5½ feet in diameter, and about 3 feet high, with an appropriate inscription on a slab of Italian marble. There are many other places of this name in the United States.