Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ive feet, with wings, ex-tending in all five hundred and thirty-six feet, with a fine faqade at each end,with granite columns of single pieces,twenty-one feet high, and weighing eachfourteen or fifteen tons. A row of gran-ite buildings on each side, four storieshigh, fin stores, is more than five hun-dred feet. The Boston Common.—This is alarge and beautiful public square, in thewestern pait of the city, lighted by gas,encircled by an iron fence, and extend-ing down the long and gentle slope ofBeacon hill. It contains about forty-three acres, exclusive of the malls whichsurround it, and the botanic garden westof it, the whole comprehending at leastseventy-five acres of open land dedicatedto the public. In spring and summer,when covered with a coat of verdantgrass, and while the numerous fine treeswhich shade it are in full foliage, thesight is remarkably striking, and cannot be contemplated without admiration,as one of the laigest and most beauti-ful public grounds in America^ Being
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88 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. slightly relieved by several svv^ells anddepressions, it is remarkably well adapt-ed to the mancBuvring and encampmentof troops, to which it is devoted on daysof military display. It was originallydedicated to this purpose, and was aftei-ward used for the pasturing of cows, asappears from the recorded depositionsof some of the oldest inhabitants, takenbefoie Governor Bradstreet in 1684.In the centre of this park theie is abeautiful piece of water, known by thename of Frog pond, of about half anacre in extent, and enclosed by edge-stones of hammered granite. It is theintention of the city government—on theintroduction of pure water into the city,the works of which are already in astate of srreat forwardness—to erect a O jet deau, twenty feet high, in the broad-est part of it. Near this pond, and south of it, standsthe celebrated old elm, which for nearlytwo centuries has triumphed over theheats of summer and the blasts of win-ter, and u

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