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TOUR IN NEW ENGLAND. 
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OSTON, for the moft part, is airy 
and pleafantly fituated; but many 
of the Streets in the cld and centrical parts 
of the town are very narrow and ill paved; 
neither is fufficient attention paid to the 
cleanlinefs of the ftreets. The buildings 
are heavy, antique, and incommodious ; 
but the major part of thofe in the more 
elevated fituations difplay confiderable 
tafte and elegance. The governor’s 
houfe, formerly the refidence of Mr. Adam 
[fince ele€ted prefident], Mr. Phillips’s, 
Mr. Rogers’s, and fome others, are very 
handfome modern edifices, many of which, 
from the fteep afcent of the fireets, are fo 
elevated as to command at one view a 
profpei of the whole town. It is, on 
the whole, by far the moft irregular, and 
“has received the fewelt improvements, of 
any capital in the United States. The 
Exchange and Coffee-houfe are merely 
nominal, the latter being inferior to the 
loweit defcription of ale-neufe, while the 
merchants meet and tranfa& their bufinefs 
in the open, dirty flreet. _ From their na- 
turally enterprifing and. liberal fpirit, it 
3s matter of aftonifhment that a cofice- 
houfe has not been ereéted here, after the 
manner of the ufeful and elegant one 
at New-York ; I entertain little doubt, 
however, that this and other improve- 
ments will be foon realized among fo 
commercial a people, 
Here are commodious docks, containing 
a great quantity of fhipping, and conve- 
nieptly fiteated near the merchants” ftores 
or warehoufes, for the purpofes of lading 
or unlading ; but the port-does not equal 
that of New-York, either in beauty, 
convenience of fituation, or extent of traf- 
fic. I was credibly informed, that the. 
trade of Bofton is ina manner ftationary, 
and has not increaied in proportion to the 
ether principal fea-port towns in the 
Union. This, which I- think much to 
their credit, may in fome meafure be ac- 
counted for, trom their greater folidity of 
character in condu&ting bufinefs; whilft 
innumerable mifchiefs have refulted from 
the extenfive fpeculations too frequently 
occurring among the more ardent people 
of thefouth. I muf likewife add, that 
Botton poilefies one very diltinguiihed ad- 
vantage, which is a material coniidera- 
tion to the trading part of a community, 
as alfo to perfons defrous of emigrating, 
namely, that proceffes of law and reco- 
very of debts are obtained there more 
eafly and fpeedily than in moft other 
piaces. 
Recent Tour in New England. 
- much to its own unaflifted efforts. 
_from their bodies. 
Markets are exceedingly well and plen- 
tifully fupplied : fith and poultry may be 
had in abundance; and, from the climate 
being more favourable to gocd pafture, 
this itate far excels the fouthern, or even 
midland ones, in all kinds of butchers’ 
meat. Vegetables, however, are neither 
fo good nor fo cheap in this, nor, indeed, 
in any part of the United States, as 
might be expected from the low price of. 
land, and other advantages: but this 
arifes from a negleét of beftowing proper 
culture on the foil, and leaving nature tog 
The 
fame inattention and defect is difcover- 
able in their fruits. Soil and fituation 
do every thing; the choiceft fruits in fome 
parts growing luxurioufly by the road 
fide ; but from a want of the ufual me- 
thods of improving them by horticulture, 
their fine flavour is loft ; and their peaches 
and other delicious fruits, though appa-’ 
rently natural to the country, will not 
ftand the teft of comparifon with fimilar 
productions in England. > . 
The negroes in Bofton, compared with 
thofe in the more fouthern towns, are 
very few in number, the menial fervants 
being moftly white people. This is no 
trifling coniileration to an European, un- 
accuftomed to their hue and features, and 
the more difagreeable effiuvia exhaling 
Yet, todo juftice to 
the blacks, I never found any imftances 
among them of impertinent or difobliging 
behaviour. The police of this town is 
well regulated ; diforderly houfes and 
flagrant breaches of the public peace being 
rarely met with or taking place. The 
number of inhabitants is computed at 
about 32,000. ick 
At the fhert diftance of three miles 
from hence is the pleafantly fituated, and 
not inconfiderable town of Cambridge, 
famous for its ccllege, where a- number 
of fiuidents are educated much in the man- 
ner of the Englifh univerfities. In this 
. [April 
neighbourheod are the country-feats of . 
many of the opulent merchants, whohave 
fpared no expence to diverfify and im- 
prove the rich {cenery furnifhed by the 
band of nature. 
Coaches ftand for hire in the principal 
ftreets of Bofton; a very ufeful conve- 
nience, which has not yet been efta- 
blifhed in the larger towns of New York 
and Philadelphia. A regular, hand- 
fome, and well managed theatre, with 
fome able performers, meet with due en- 
couragement from the inhabitants. This, 
with aflemblies, concerts, and promenades, 
conititute the chief of theiy recreations 
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