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private entrances to the park), and the rest now sell at $1.25 

 a square yard. The whole concern cost the town between 

 five and six hundred thousand dollars. It gives employment, 

 at present, to ten gardeners and labourers in summer, and to 

 five in winter. 



The generous spirit and fearless enterprise that has ac- 

 complished this, has not been otherwise forgetful of the 

 health and comfort of the poor. Among other things, I 

 remember, a public washing and bathing house for the town 

 is provided. I should have mentioned also, in connection 

 with the market, that in the outskirts of the town there is a 

 range of stone slaughter-houses, with stables, yards, pens, 

 supplies of hot and cold water and other arrangements and 

 conveniences, that enlightened regard for health and decency 

 would suggest. 



The consequence of all these sorts of things is, that all 

 about the town lands, which a few years ago were almost 

 worthless wastes, have become of priceless value; where no 

 sound was heard but the bleating of goats and braying of 

 asses complaining of their pasturage, there is now the hasty 

 click and clatter of many hundred busy trowels and ham- 

 mers. You may drive through wide and thronged streets of 

 stately edifices, where were only a few scattered huts, sur- 

 rounded by quagmires. Docks of unequalled size and 

 grandeur are building, and a forest of masts grows along the 

 shore ; and there is no doubt that this young town is to be not 

 only remarkable as a most agreeable and healthy place of 

 residence, but that it will soon be distinguished for extensive 

 and profitable commerce. It seems to me to be the only 

 town I ever saw that has been really built at all in accordance 

 with the advanced science, taste and enterprising spirit 

 that are supposed to distinguish the nineteenth century. I 

 do not doubt it might be found to have plenty of exceptions 

 to its general character, but I did not inquire for these, nor 

 did I happen to observe them. Certainly, in what I have 

 noticed, it is a model town, and may be held up as an example 



