ARRIVAL AT BOSTON. 



CHAPTER II. 



Arrival at Boston Town Bunkershill Vicinity of 

 Boston Farms Roads Population Manners of 

 the People. 



May 1841. 



WE had a pleasant run, of about thirty- 

 seven hours, from Halifax to Boston, the ca- 

 pital of Massachusetts, the distance about 380 

 miles. We arrived in the harbour at 2 A. M. 

 of the 6th, thus having made the voyage 

 from Liverpool in fourteen days to Halifax, 

 and fifteen days and a half to Boston. With 

 the same weather, in a sailing vessel, we 

 should probably have been six weeks on the 

 passage. 



At 6 A. M. I went on shore, heartily glad 

 to find myself once more on terra firma. I 

 took up my quarters at the Albion Hotel, a 

 very comfortable house went into a cold 



