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Boston on the improvement of the neighbourhood. Taxation 

 in this State compared with that of Great Britain. Harvard 

 University. Colleges in this State. Views propounded by 

 Agassiz on the plurality of the human race. Infidel nature 

 of these views. Necessity of looking these opinions in the 

 face, and of being able to combat them, . . .414 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



BOSTON, PLYMOUTH, AND PROVIDENCE. 



Etherisation at Boston. Medical School. Mammoth skeleton. 

 Improvement of the negro race. Fruit-tree borers. Hock 

 from the Catauba grape. Vineyards of the Ohio River. 

 German hosiery excluding English. Gallantry of the Kentucky 

 Legislature. Reasons of divorce in the several States. Posi 

 tion of the female sex in the United States. Proportions of 

 the sexes among emigrants. Plymouth and Forefathers 

 Rock. Pilgrim hall and graveyard. A clam bake. Cultiva 

 tion of cranberries. Fresh water in sand-banks. Forefather 

 anniversary addresses. Providence in Rhode Island. 

 Farming and position of the farming class. Brown University. 

 Existing universities do not supply what the most progres 

 sive classes require. Comparative lowering of the professions. 

 Right of all to an education adapted to their after-life. 

 Proposed changes in Brown University to meet the wants 

 of the whole community. Constitution and success of the 

 University of Virginia, . . . . .448 



CHAPTER XXX. 



BOSTON, AMHERST, AND THE HUDSON. 



Free-soil and abolition meetings at Boston. Mr Webster s opinions 

 on slave extension. Stump orators. Rise and opinions of the 

 Abolition party. Dr Webster s trial. Common- schools of this 

 State. Facts regarding them. School assessment. Educa 

 tion schemes of our early Reformers. Their plans carried out 

 in Massachusetts eighty years after. Springfield. Amherst 

 College. Fossil foot-prints of birds. Scenery on the Upper 

 Connecticut River. Mr Marsh s collection of bird-tracks. 

 Valley of the Westfield River. Changes in the Potsdam sand- 

 Btone. Soils of Berks County. Sail down the Hudson. 

 Higher ascent of the tide in this river of late years. Converse 

 case of the river Wear. Clubs in Boston. Discoveries of 

 mineral phosphate of lime in North America. Importance of 

 this to general agriculture. Return to England, . .482 



