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There are 2,112 colored people. But including 

 South and East Boston, Charlestown, Chelsea, Rox- 

 burj, and the neighboring towns of East, West, and 

 Old Cambridge, Dorchester, Maiden, Medford, Brigh- 

 ton and Brookline, which are component parts of Bos- 

 ton, and are as much associated with it as Westmins- 

 ter is with London, Magottj Cove with St. John's, 

 Newfoundland, or Portland with St. John, New 

 Brunswick, the population of Boston would be over 

 300,000. Boston is rapidly expanding itself into a 

 great city ; and in the course of a few years probably 

 will contain a population of over half a million. 

 Places which a few years ago " told of the stirring of 

 the ocean old," are now laid out in beautiful streets, 

 lined with fine buildings. The City Authorities are 

 now reclaiming, or rather making, a great quantity of 

 land at the " Neck," leading from Boston to Roxbury. 

 Two of the principal streets of Boston, Washington 

 and Tremont, lead straight on from the city to the 

 furthest extremity of Roxbury, a distance of about 

 seven miles. 



The whole number of alien passengers which ar- 

 rived in Boston, for the quarter ending July 1, 1850, 

 was 15,559. The total number of emigrants which 

 arrived in the United States from April 1, 1848, to 

 April 1, 1849, was 247,500. 



