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granite, located upon a beautiful eminence, and 

 surrounded with trees. On the cast bank of the 

 river, stands one of the United States arsenals, a very 

 fine building, a short distance from -which is the State 

 Insane Hospital ; it is a splendid granite edifice, 

 occupying a plat of 70 acres. It is one of the finest 

 buildings of the kind I have seen in the country. 

 Ship-building is carried on more extensively in this 

 State than any other in the Union. The following is 

 the number of ships built in the United States during 

 the years 1840 and 1850 : — 



Of the 247 ships built in 1850, Maine constructed 

 127 ; of the 117 brigs, she built 75 ; and of the 547 

 schooners, 115. 



The total amount of tonnage employed in the 

 United States in 1849, was 3,334,015 tons. 



A ship is now building at New York, said to be the 



