General Accounts.--Osgood, _Colonies_; Doyle, _Colonies_, III. ch. ix.; Lodge, _Colonies_, ch. xxii.; W. Weeden, _Economic and Social History_; J. Bishop, _History of American Manufactures_; American Statistical Association _Publications_, No. 1. Special Histories.--Manners and customs: Earle, _Costumes of Colonial Times_, _Customs and Fashions in Old New England, Sabbath in Puritan New England_, and _Stage Coach and Tavern Days_; W. Bliss, _Colonial Times on Buzzard's Bay_, and _Old Colony Town_; F. Child, _Colonial Parsons of New England_; J. Felt, _Customs of New England_; Fisher, _Men, Women, and Manners_, I. chs. ii.-v.; Howe, _Puritan Republic_, chs. v.-ix.; W. Love, _Fast and Thanksgiving Days_; M. Ward, _Old Colony Days_; Wharton, _Colonial Days and Dames_.--Education: C. Johnson, _Old Time Schools and School Books_; E. Brown, _Making of our Middle Schools_.--Theology: B. Adams, _Emancipation of Massachusetts_; F. Foster, _New England Theology_; M. Greene, _Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut_; C. F. Adams, _Antinomianism_.--Press: C. Duniway, _Freedom of Press in Massachusetts_; G. Littlefield, _Early Massachusetts Press_; R. Roden, _Cambridge Press_.--Slavery: G. Moore, _Slavery in Massachusetts_; G. Williams, _Negro Race in America, 1619-1880_; W. Dubois, _Suppression of Slave Trade_.--On the witchcraft delusion: C. Upham, _Salem Witchcraft_; S. Drake, _Annals of Witchcraft_; J. Taylor, _Witchcraft Delusion in Connecticut_.--Medical practice: O. Holmes, _Medical Profession in Massachusetts_. See also, biographies of prominent men. Contemporary Accounts.--Same as § 63, above. 75. Land and People. Sidenote: Geography. North of Cape Cod the shores of New England are rugged and forbidding, though the coast-line is indented by numerous inlets from the sea, affording safe anchorage. To the south of the cape there are also abundant harbors; but the mountains nowhere approach the shore, and the beach is wide, with a sand strip extending for some distance inland, while treacherous shoals are not uncommon. The rivers, except those in Maine and the Merrimac and the Connecticut, are small, and have their sources in innumerable small lakes; the upper streams fall in successions of picturesque cascades, the water-power of which is often profitably utilized in manufacturing; and the larger rivers are held back by great dams, about which have grown up the manufacturing towns of Manchester, Nashua, Lowell, Lawrence, Holyoke, and many others.