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best friend. I also saw Frederika Bremer, Tvhose 

 reputation is so well known as a distinguished writer. 



In front of the State House is the Common, a 

 delightful promenade, containing about seventy-five 

 acres of land, beautifully laid out in walks intersect- 

 ing each other in every direction, and shaded with 

 upwards of one thousand trees, consisting of maple, 

 ash, lime, horn-beam, button-wood, English and 

 American elm, with a jingo, (a native of Java ;) 

 the whole of which is enclosed with an iron paling, 

 one mile two hundred and seventeen yards in length. 

 About the centre of the Common is a small pond 

 which contains two fountains, capable of throwing 

 the water into a variety of fantastic shapes to the 

 height of about one hundred feet. Near this spot 

 stands a majestic elm, which has withstood the storms 

 of more than a hundred winters. Its branches 

 spread more than eighty feet, (which are now sup- 

 ported by iron braces) it is sixty-five feet high, and 

 its girth near the ground nearly twenty-two feet. 



Charlestown is connected with Boston by a bridge 

 six thousand one hundred and ninety feet in length, 

 which cost upwards of $76,000. The first time I 

 visited Charlestown, I spent the day going through 

 the Navy Yard, and visiting the Bunker Hill Monu- 

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