Word: asquam
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...dispossessed the Indian from his native soil, the Red Men, in what is now New Hampshire, frequently visited the Place of the Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill was built in the High Place for Fish along the Place of the Swift Waters, the cotton mill...
...farm and woodland, with nearly two miles of lake shore. The topography is varied and well adapted to surveying problems. There are class and drafting rooms for 150 students. The camp may be reached most conveniently by the Boston and Maine Railroad to Ashland, N H., thence by the Asquam Transportation Company's boats over Squam Lake...
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