West Meadow Brook in the west, and South Brook in the south parish, and other smaller streams.

   There is another river, which rises in Stoughton, south of the Blue Hills, and passes through the north parish, and is there called Salisbury River, from the circumstances of its running on the easterly side of Salisbury Plain, so called, and thence continues its course into the east parish, where it unites with Beaver Brook, and is then called Matfield River, from an Indian of that name, who is said to have lived on the banks of it, and lower down it unites with Byram's Brook, anciently called Spring Brook, now called Forge Brook, and is then called John's River, from John Howard, an early settler near it, where Dea. Samuel Keen now lives.   It soon unites with the Poor Meadow river, and thence passes into the south parish and there unites with the Town River.   There are, in the north parish, five or six mill seats on this river and Beaver Brook, and seven in the east, including those on Beaver and Byram's Brook.   This river passes the whole length of the town, and may well be called Middle River, as it is the middle one of the three principal streams composing the Great River.

   Poor Meadow River, above mentioned, passes through Abington and the north-west corner of Hanson, entering the east parish on the easterly side; and, uniting with the river coming from Halifax, through Monponset Pond and Robin's Pond, is then called Satucket River, and after receiving a small increase from Black Brook unites with John's River, as before stated.   Hobart's works in Abington, and Cushing's in Hanson, formerly called Moor's Forge, stand on the Poor Meadow stream; and the extensive works at Halifax are on the other branch of the Satucket River.   Whitman's Mills in the east, now called the East Bridgewater Manufacturing Establishment, are on this river; and just below the confluence of these three rivers, in the south parish, stand the new mills, so called, and the paper mill, owned by Hooker and Warren.   The Great River, after receiving the waters of the Winnetuxet from Plympton, and of the Namasket from Middleborough, is commonly called Titicut River, but from Titicut to the sea is called Taunton Great River.   There are several other small mill seats in various parts of the Town, on the minor brooks and rivulets, which afford sufficient