" Here are two streams which meet and run under the road, the one flowing '. from the east along the road side, enters the ground twenty-five or thirty feet east of where it seems to cross the road, the stream from the north east, appears to run nearly straight, directly under the road, and issues from the earth again, after falling ten or fifteen feet lower than where it enters, but the place where it issues from the earth, is at least twenty-five feet perpendicular, the top of which precipice is within ten or fifteen feet from the side of the road. The two streams, although they enter the ground so far from each other, unite under ground, and come up together." The question how these effects are to be accounted for, is a matter we leave to abler philosophers than ourselves lo

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determine. Gro.w Hill lies half a mile to the northeast of the Natural Bridge. There is a lofty hill in the southern part of the town, bordering the Bedford road called Turkey Hill, on account of the great number of wild turkeys that once frequented it.

St James's Episcopal Church, occupies an elevated situation directly opposite the junction of the cross roads, at Salem centre, and is quite a picturesque object from the valley. It is constructed of wood, and surmounted with a neat bell turret. The old edifice erected in 1763, stood east of the present, upon the property of Epenetus Wallace, M. D.^ The first notice of this parish, occurs in a letter addressed by the Rev. Samuel Auchmuty, D. D., Rector of Trinity Church, New York, to the Venerable Propagation Society in England, dated October 17th, 1767, enclosing a petition from the chnrch people of Salem, wherein " they represent their want of religious instruction and the regular administration of God's word and sacraments according to their religious profession, there being no minister of the church nearer than Rye, which is between thirty-eight and forty miles distant.