Wallum Pondl, which is crossed near its southern end by the 42nd parallel, lies about 1% miles east of the Connecticut line, partly in Douglas, Mass and partly in Burrillville, Rhode Island. It is Situated in the southern part of what in early Colonial times was called the Nipmuck country. The Nipmuck lands extended from Central Massachusetts northward past the Watchusett Hills, to about the southern line of New Hamp shire; northeastward to the Pawtuckets on the lower M errimac eastward to the Massachusetts Indians by the Bay, and to the Wampanoags east of the Blackstone; southward to the northern Rhode Island bands tributary to the Narragansetts. And to the Mohegans Of east central Connecticut; and westward to the Indians of the Connecticut valley.