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recommend the example of Mr. Williams for the gener- 

 al imitation of the fai-mers of Kssex. In making this re- 

 commendation we hope no one will be disposed to raise 

 the stale cry of' bribery and corruption.' The commit- 

 tee would resent such an imputation with the scorn it 

 merits. Sooner than be influenced by such considera- 

 tions they would consent to he burned at the steak ! 



Byfield has become as celebrated for its breeds of swine 

 as for her Dummer School, and the many pupils of that 

 ancient Seminary may look back on its delightful shades 

 and associate in pleasant remembrance its science and 

 swine, its litters as well as its letters, its pork and its 

 philosophy. 



Other places in the County arc destined to immortality 

 from associations connected with the swinish race. Ips- 

 wich has done herself honor by giving the name of Hog- 

 town to one of her pleasant localities, and thus has at- 

 tained a high place in swinish annals. The town of 

 Essex has also her Hog Island, on which have been rais- 

 ed some of the finest Choates in the country, and one of 

 the most beautiful eminences in the town of Danvers, is 

 known by the name of Hoghill. 



Beverly has the enviable distinction of having the 

 largest swinish population in the County. By the last 

 census she had 900 swine, which is several hundred 

 more than any other town or city, and she is emphati- 

 cally the banner town of the County for living pork. 

 And why should it not be so ? Beverly has long been 

 celebrated for the excellence of its beans, and there 

 seems to be a kind of natural and harmonious union sub- 

 sisting between these two admirable esculents. What 

 would be the vegetable without the oily unctuousness of 

 the animal substance ? and what viand comparable 

 with both united ! With these two great staple com- 

 modities and clad in her bristling armor, she may defy 

 the world — but if ever she suffers her vines to languish 

 and her poles to be driven into exile, it is to be feared 

 that her glory will also de|)art. 



Lynn, too, has her share of swinish honors, derived 

 from the extraordinary merits of a single individual of 

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