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CHARTER IX. 



TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES. 



After a stay of three days, leaving Niagara with regret, Dr. 

 Harvey crossed Lake Ontario, and having visited Montreal and 

 Quebec, retraced his route to the former city, and returned 

 from thence to New York by Lake Champlain and Saratoga. 

 The next letter to his sister relates his arrival at Boston : — 



To Mrs. T . 



Cambridge, October 18. 

 I sailed from New York in the Empire State, a splendid 

 vessel of huge dimensions, having 304 berths in the saloon, and 

 arrived at Boston at seven o'clock next morning, the distance 

 233 miles; the latter fifty of which were by railroad. The 

 hotel I stopped at near the Institute was a Temperance one ; 

 and there was a notice in the bedroom that inmates were ex- 

 pected to attend morning and evening family prayers, in the 

 parlour, that no one would be taken into the house on the 

 " Sabbath ;" and that those who chose to leave on that day must 

 pay their bills the evening before, or not expect to be allowed 

 to decamp. 



Whatnot" Boston ? It is unlike any American city I have yet 

 seen, and to my fancy much more beautiful — clean and well 

 kept, with remarkably crooked or winding streets, irregularly 

 projecting houses, stone buildings and brick, mixed together 

 in pleasing proportions. Some fine streets of residences which 

 would do credit to any city. A beautiful park with "trees, walks, 

 hills, and fountains. After the interminable straight and 

 rectangular streets of other American cities, it is quite refresh- 



