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railroads, and require thousands of canal boats and 

 railroad cars for transportation. A ton of pig Iron is 

 made with two and a half tons each of ore and coal, 

 and a ton of limestone ; also, say for labor and pro- 

 visions while smelting the ore, and contingences, $6 

 — in all $20 ; other $40, chiefly for labor, coal and 

 provisions, are required to convert pig into a ton of 

 bar. Iron canal boats were in common use in Wales 

 thirty years ago — they are beginning to be made 

 here ; also war steamers. Fences, and even porches 

 to houses, are often of iron. The pipes for the Cro- 

 ton water in New York required many thousand tons. 

 The annual value of 150,000 tons of iron ore of Ma- 

 ryland is worth $600,000 at Baltimore. A single 

 foundry in Tennessee sold, in 1844, of sugar-kettles, 

 $50,000 worth. 



In the month of April I made a tour through the 

 States of New Hampshire and Maine. The first 

 place which I visited was — 



Lynn, which was first settled in 1629. It received 

 its name from a town in England. Its Indian name 

 was Saugust. It is about six miles in length, and is 

 almost surrounded by water. The river Saugus 

 flows on the West, the harbor on the South, the ocean 

 on the Southeast, and a chain of Ponds, called the 

 " Lynn Lakes," on the north. The town has broad 



