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Field Meeting at Lynn, Thursday, Sept. 23, 1869. The last Field 

 Meeting for the season was attended at Lynn by a pleasant though 

 not very large company of ladies and gentlemen from the neighbor- 

 ing towns, who at about 10, a. m., arrived from various points and 

 rendezvoused at the Boston sti-eet Methodist Church. Some uncer- 

 tainties of weather had liept back a portion of those who intended 

 to be present, but the day, as it proved, was wholly clear and unex- 

 ceptionable; in fact, one of the pleasantest of the season. 



Soon after arrival the company were distributed into excursion 

 parties and set ofl' in diverse directions. A full list of noteworthy 

 localities had been prepared and circulated, by the aid of which 

 some turned their attention to the old shell-beds located in Eocks 

 Pasture ; others struck out for Breed's Pond and similarly attractive 

 waters ; while others gratified themselves by a stroll on the nearer 

 hills, or a walk through the flue gardens of some of the citizens of 

 the vicinity. But the greater part of the company, availing them- 

 selves of the carriages in waiting, took passage for Dungeon Kock, 

 and spent some hours among the rustic beauties of that sylvan local- 

 ity. The Marbles, father and son, have been blasting the rock since 

 1852, and have succeeded in making a circuitous cave downwards, 

 about one hundred and fifty feet in length and from eight to ten feet 

 in width and height, " under direction of the spirits." 



The new City Hall was also visited. This is one of the finest, if 

 not the finest, in the State, outside of Boston, for municipal pur- 

 poses; the arrangements for the accommodation of the different 

 boai'ds and the several ofllcers are admirable. Convenient and suita- 

 ble rooms are also provided for the Public Library, which, under the 

 management of the present accomplished librarian, Mr. Jacob Batch- 

 elder, is in a good condition, and the numerous and valuable addi- 

 tions will ere long place it among the first-class libraries. 



This building is conveniently located on Park square, at the junc- 

 tion of North Common, Market and Essex streets. It is built in the 

 Italian Renaissaut style, which, from the great variety of outline that 

 it admits of, and the multiplicitj^ of parts required, is one admirably 

 suited to the wants and uses of a great public building. The ex- 

 terior walls are of pressed brick, with the basement, entablatures, 

 and other architectural details, of Connecticut brown freestone. The 

 corner stone was laid November 28, 1805, and the dedication took 

 place November 30, 1867, with appropriate ceremonies. 



The Western Burying Ground, opposite the Lynn Hotel, and the old 

 i-ecords in the City Hall, aflforded much material for the student in 

 local history. 



This part of Lynn was early settled. The place of meetiug is on 

 the old Boston road (now called Boston street), over which our fath- 



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