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The six acres of play-ground are tliickly built over. A thoroughfare of iU repute traverses it 

 from west to east. This street was at first called March Street ; and under that appellation 

 acquired an e-\dl report. It was hoped that a nobler designation would perhaps elevate the 

 character of the place as the name "Milton Street" had helped to do for the ignoble Grub 

 Street in London. But the purlieus of the neighbourhood continue, unhappily, to be the 

 Alsatia of the town. The filling up of the old breezy field with dwellings, for the most part of 

 a wretched class has driven "the schoolmaster" away from the region. His return to the 

 locahty, in some good missionary sense, is much to be wished ; and after a time, will probably 

 be an accomplished fact. 



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