A history and description of the textile manufacturing city of Lowell, Massachusetts, by Rev. Henry A. Miles (second edition, 1846). It traces the area from its Indian history and the first canal through the founding of the Locks and Canals Company and the individual mill corporations (Merrimack, Hamilton, Appleton, Lowell, Middlesex, Suffolk, Tremont, Lawrence, Boott, Massachusetts). It describes life and work in a corporation, boarding houses, and cotton, calico printing, woollen and carpet mills, with chapters on hours, wages, health and moral regulation of the female operatives, supported by boarding-house and mill statistics. It closes with chapters on churches, schools, the Lowell Offering and other institutions, and an appendix of biographies of Francis Cabot Lowell, Paul Moody, Kirk Boott, Warren Colburn, Luther Lawrence and Robert Means. It includes a foldout map of the city.