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windows, at this time, exhibit a magnificent appearance as 

 we pass them on the outside, while the lamps are glittering 

 from within, through their myriad configurations of frost. 

 The window panes resemble so many pictured glasses ; and 

 while the forms of objects within cannot be seen, the lamps 

 twinkle through the frost-work, and cast upon the traveller a 

 beautiful and variegated light. 



SUBURBAN VISITS, 



The crowded condition of our pages for some time, to- 

 gether with our absence from home, has prevented us from 

 completing the notes of some suburban visits made in August 

 last. We now add a few of them, and the remainder will 

 appear in our next volume. 



Residence of Peter Smith, Andover, Mass. — It was on 

 the pleasant morning of the 25th of August that we found 

 our way to the Maine Railroad depot, where we took the 

 train for the beautiful town of Andover, to visit our friend, 

 Deacon Smith, whose elegant residence, situated not far 

 from the station, overlooks the busy part of the village, and 

 the country beyond. His grounds comprise in all upwards 

 of forty acres, considerable of which is fine woodland. The 

 whole, ten years ago, was a wild, rocky, and apparently ster- 

 ile hill-side, which none but a persevering and energetic man 

 like Deacon Smith would ever have undertaken to subdue. 

 But the rocks have been removed, the brushwood cleared up, 

 the soil trenched and levelled, and several acres of it made 

 into a beautiful garden, a thrifty orchard, and fine pasture 

 land. 



The house stands upon the edge of a high embankment, 

 with a street wall built of the rocks cleared from the land. 

 The garden is situated on both sides and in the rear, that on 

 the right being the flower garden, that on the left the orna- 

 mental ground, and that in the rear the orchard and vegeta- 

 ble garden. At the back of the flower garden is a handsome 



