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NASH, Thomas, an English dramatist, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, about 1560, died in London in 1600 or 1601. He took the degree of B. A. at Cambridge in 1584, and in 1589 fixed his abode in London. The prelatists and Puritans being then engaged in a war of vituperation, Nash espoused the cause of the former, and wrote a series of pamphlets including “Pap with a Hatchet,” “An Almond for a Parrot,” “A Countercuffe to Martin Junior,” and “Martin's Month's Minde.” He aided Marlowe in writing “Dido, Queen of Carthage,” and produced a spectacle styled “Summer's Last Will and Testament,” which was exhibited before Queen Elizabeth in 1592. Nash's plays were ill received, and he became very poor. He described his forlorn condition in his “Pierce Penniless, his Supplication to the Divell,” which appeared in 1592. He then resumed pamphleteering, and assailed Dr. Gabriel Harvey, who made a stout defence; and finally the archbishop of Canterbury ordered the publications of both to be seized. In 1597 Nash produced a satirical play called “The Isle of Dogs,” the representation of which led to his confinement in the Fleet prison.
NASHUA, a city and one of the shire towns of Hillsborough co., New Hampshire, at the junction of the Merrimack and Nashua rivers, 35 m. S. of Concord, and 40 m. N. N. W. of Boston; pop. in 1870, 10,543. The streets are broad, well lighted, and lined with trees, and many of the churches and residences are handsome. Its prosperity depends upon its railroad facilities and its manufactures. The railroads meeting here are the Boston, Lowell, and Nashua; the Concord; the Nashua, Acton, and Boston; the Worcester and Nashua; the Wilton; and the Nashua and Rochester. Water power is obtained from the Mine falls in the Nashua river, from which a canal has been cut, 3 m. long, 60 ft. wide, and 8 ft. deep, with a head and fall of 36 ft. The Jackson company, with 766 looms and 22,000 spindles, produces sheetings and shirtings; the Nashua manufacturing company, with 1,800 looms and 75,000 spindles, manufactures sheetings, shirtings, prints, and flannels; and the Vale Mills manufacturing company, with 4,684 spindles, produces shirtings. There are also extensive iron works, with the largest steam hammer in the United States, soapstone works, and manufactories of bedsteads, carpets, bobbins, spools, and shuttles, cards and glazed paper, edge tools, locks, shoes, marble-working tools and implements, sash, doors, and blinds, &c. The city has two national banks and three savings banks. There are a high school and several grammar, middle, and primary schools, with an average attendance of 1,790; a city library, with about 6,000 volumes; two daily and two weekly newspapers; and 11 churches, viz.: 1 Baptist, 3 Congregational, 1 Episcopal, 2 Methodist, 2 Roman Catholic, 1 Unitarian, and 1 Universalist. Nashua owes its origin to the organization of the Nashua manufacturing company in 1823. It was incorporated as a city in 1853.
NASHVILLE, a port of delivery and the capital of Tennessee, seat of justice of Davidson co., the second city of the state in point of population, situated on the S. bank of the Cumberland river, 200 m. above its junction with the Ohio, a little N. of the centre of the state, and 240 m. S. S. W. of Cincinnati; lat. 36° 10′ N., lon. 86° 49′ W.; pop. in 1830, 5,566; in 1840, 6,929; in 1850, 10,165; in 1860, 16,988; in 1870, 25,865, of whom 9,709 were colored and 2,809 foreigners. The river bluffs are here rocky, and rise 70 or 80 ft. above low-water mark. The land on which the city is built is irregular, rising in gradual slopes, with the exception of Capitol hill, which is more abrupt. This eminence is symmetrical, resembling an Indian mound, and overlooks the entire city. Nashville is regularly laid out, with streets crossing each other at right angles, but mostly rather narrow. It is generally well built, and there are numerous imposing public and private buildings. One of the finest of the former is the capitol, situated on Capitol hill, and constructed inside and out of a beautiful variety of fossiliferous limestone. It is three stories high including the basement. At each end there is an Ionic portico of eight columns, each 4 ft. 6 in. in diameter and 33 ft. 5 in. high, and each of the sides has also a portico of six columns. A tower rises above the centre of the roof to the height of 206 ft. from the ground. It has a quadrangular rusticated base, 42 ft. high, surmounted by a circular cell 37 ft. high and 26 ft. 8 in. in diameter, with eight fluted Corinthian columns, designed from the choragic monument of Lysicrates at Athens. The dimensions of the whole building are 239 by 138 ft., and it cost nearly $1,000,000. It is approached by four avenues which rise from terrace to terrace by broad marble steps. The edifice is considered one of the handsomest public buildings in the country. The court house is a large building on the public square, with an eight-columned Corinthian portico at each end, and a four-columned portico at each side. The market house, also on the public square, is a fine building. The county jail is a substantial structure of stone. The state penitentiary buildings, also of stone, occupy three sides of a hollow square enclosed by a massive stone wall, within which are numerous workshops. The Hermitage, the celebrated residence of Andrew Jackson, is 12 m. E. of Nashville. The city has several lines of street railway. It is lighted with gas, and is supplied with water by expensive works, which raise it from the river to four reservoirs. The Cumberland is navigable below this point for about nine months in the year, and to Carthage, 100 m. above, for about the same time, and for four months to Point Burnside, 260 m. above Carthage, tapping the great Appalachian coal field. At Nashville it is crossed by an
