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For many years after, the old men of the tribe repeated this story and its lesson from the top of Atotarho's duff. This is the Mohegan name of the pretty lake in the Berkshires now called Pontoosuc.
The Indians never found the bodies of the pair, but they believed that while water remains in Pontoosuc its surface will be vexed by these journeys of the dead. In 1720 there lived in a turreted house at North and Essex Streets, in Salem, a silent, dark-visaged man, a reputed chemist.
For many years after, the old men of the tribe repeated this story and its lesson from the top of Atotarho's duff. This is the Mohegan name of the pretty lake in the Berkshires now called Pontoosuc.
Thus, as we marched along, Rogers kept talking to us, instructing us in the methods of wood-fighting. We went through Worcester, Brookfield, and Northampton to Pontoosuc Fort, where a party of Mohegan Indians from Stockbridge joined us, under their chief Jacob. Then to a Dutch settlement called Kinderhook, and to the Hudson River. The weather was very cold, and the river was frozen over.
Since the last war, the settlements of Massachusetts had pushed westward and begun to invade the beautiful region of mountains and valleys that now forms Berkshire. Villages, or rudiments of villages, had grown up on the Housatonic, and an establishment had been attempted at Pontoosuc, now Pittsfield, on the extreme western limits of the province.
For the first eighty years the Worthington turnpike, running by way of Northampton, was the only means of passage to the east. In 1830 the Pontoosuc turnpike going through Westfield was completed and transferred traffic from the old road to the new, which led to Springfield. A little before this time the Erie Canal project was successfully carried out.
The Indians never found the bodies of the pair, but they believed that while water remains in Pontoosuc its surface will be vexed by these journeys of the dead. In 1720 there lived in a turreted house at North and Essex Streets, in Salem, a silent, dark-visaged man, a reputed chemist.
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