8 BOSTON. 



bath ate a good breakfast and then walk- 

 ed through the town, which is much to be 

 admired. 



The houses are all of brick or stone, and 

 particularly handsome ; the streets regular and 

 clean, paved with wooden blocks, and having 

 foot-paths about six feet wide, laid with brick, 

 and everything proclaiming Boston to be a 

 place of importance. The population, I under- 

 stood, is now upwards of 100,000, having in- 

 creased more than five-fold within the last 

 eight-and-forty years. 



From the quantity of well-fed beef and 

 mutton I saw in the butchers' market, I in- 

 ferred that the land about Boston must be 

 good, and feeding well understood. The fish 

 and poultry markets were also excellent, and, 

 in short, there appeared to be in Boston no 

 want of the good things of this world. 



On Friday the 7th, I drove eight or ten 

 miles into the country, and visited Bunkers- 

 hill where a monument, designed to be 280 

 feet high, is erecting of granite, to commemo- 

 rate the battle fought there in the beginning 



