CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



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Pretended Fossil Sea Serpent, or Zeuglodon, from Alabama. Recent 

 Appearance of a Sea Serpent in Gulf of St. Lawrence. In Norway in 

 1845. Near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, 1817. American Descrip 

 tions. Conjectures as to Nature of the Animal. Sea Snake stranded 

 in the Orkneys proved to be a Shark. Dr. Barclay s Memoir. Sir 

 Everard Home s Opinion. Sea Serpent of Hebrides, 1808. Reasons 

 for concluding that Pontoppidan s Sea Snake was a Basking Shark. 

 Captain M Quhae s Sea Serpent 107 



CHAPTER IX. 



Boston. No Private Lodgings. Boarding-houses. Hotels. Effects of 

 the Climate on Health. Large Fortunes. Style of Living. Serv 

 ants. Carriages. Education of Ladies. Marriages. Professional 

 Incomes. Protectionist Doctrines. Peculiarities of Language. 

 Literary Tastes. Cost of Living. Alarms of Fire .... 122 



CHAPTER X. 



Boston. Blind Asylum and Laura Briclgeman. Respect for Freedom 

 of Conscience. Cemetery of Mount Auburn. Channing s Cenotaph. 

 Episcopal Churches. Unitarian Congregations. Eminent Preach 

 ers. Progress of Unitarians why slow. Their works reprinted in 

 England. Nothingarians. Episcopalian Asceticism. Separation of 

 Religion and Politics . . 133 



CHAPTER XI. 



Boston. Whig Caucus. Speech of Mr. Webster. Politics in Masachu- 

 setts. Election of Governor and Representatives. Thanksgiving Day 

 and Governor s Proclamation. Absence of Pauperism. Irish Repeal 

 Meeting. New England Sympathizer. Visit to a Free School. 

 State Education. Pay and Social Rank of Teachers Importance of 

 the Profession. Rapid Progress and Effects of Educational Move 

 ment. Popular Lectures. Lending Libraries . . . . .141 



