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At present they consume at the rate of 20,000 bush- 

 els of grain per season in the manufacture of beer. 



The distillery of Manley & Embury, at the corner 

 of Tillary and Gold streets, covers an extensive area 

 of ground. It has been established about seventeen 

 years, and employs fifty men. The machinery is 

 driven by a large steam engine of fifty horse-power, 

 which is supplied by several boilers. About three 

 thousand gallons of whiskey are made each day. 

 The principal public buildings of Boston are : — 

 The State House, which is situated on Beacon 

 street, fronting the Common. Its length is one hundred 

 and seventy-three feet, breadth sixty-one feet. It was 

 commenced in 1795, and finished in 1798. It cost 

 $183,333. In the month of May I paid a visit to 

 the top of the State House, accompanied by my friend 

 Emmett from Newfoundland, the view from which is 

 exceedingly interesting and beautiful. It is a splendid 

 panorama, embracing a circumference of sixty or sev- 

 enty miles. Immediately beneath the spectator is the 

 city, with its numerous spires and crooked streets. 

 On the east appears the ocean, covered with ships in 

 all directions ; and in every other direction appears 

 hill and dale, farms and villas, towns and cities, the 

 whole presenting one of the grandest pictures of na- 



