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birds, the most humble of all animals in their claims, the most 

 delicate, innocent, and pure in all their tastes and habits, and 

 comparatively useless for food, puts himself beyond the pale of 

 humanity, and could scarcely, with safety, be trusted with a 

 child. It were worth considering always, how many of our 

 pleasures are purchased at a most bitter expense of happiness and 

 life to others ! Two or three days coursing, manly and health 

 ful as the exercise on horseback undoubtedly is, and strongly 

 exciting as the sport is, did not quite reconcile me to it and the 

 wailings and shrie kings of the affrighted and dying hares, in the 

 jaws of the hounds, sounded in my ears, for several days after 

 wards, like the cries of expiring children. 



I shall not be straying from my proper duty if I urge the 

 beneficent example of London strongly upon my own country 

 men. In Boston, excepting the Common containing about 

 forty-five acres of ground, exceedingly beautiful in its location 

 and improvements and some few openings upon a very limited 

 scale, there is a large and constantly increasing population crowded 

 together in one dense mass, with narrow streets and confined 

 alleys, and basement stories, doomed to a comparative privation 

 of Heaven s freest and greatest blessings light and air. A 

 Botanical and Pleasure Garden has been laid out, and is main 

 tained by private subscription, accessible to subscribers or upon 

 the payment of a light fee, which it is earnestly to be hoped, for 

 the credit of this city, long distinguished by its liberality and 

 public spirit, may receive every encouragement, so that its im 

 provements and advantages may be greatly extended. New York. 

 with a population of three times the extent of Boston, is scarcely 

 more favored, excepting in the width of its streets ; for, with the 

 exception of those delightful grounds, the Battery, at the very 

 extremity of the city, the open space in front of the City Hall, 

 dignified, par excellence, by the name of the Park, and the open 

 grounds attached to St. John s Church, and the University, but 

 not accessible to the public, the city has no provision of this kind 

 for public recreation and health. As there is little room in the 

 city proper which can now be obtained, she ought at once, at 

 any expense, to secure the charming grounds at Hoboken, to be 

 devoted forever and exclusively to these objects. Having already, 

 with the most honorable enterprise, achieved one of the most 

 extraordinary undertakings of the age, or indeed of any age, 

 that of bringing, by a capacious tunnel of forty miles in length, a 



