. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. nd from a hill, whichftands clofe to the town, where thereis a beacon erefted to alarm theneighbourhood in cafe of any fur-prife, is one of the fined profpecls,the mod beautifully variegated, andrichly grouped, of any, without ex-ception, that I have ever feen. The chief pubhc buildings arethree churches ; thirteen or four-teen meeting-houfes ; the gover-nors palace; the court-houfe, orexchange ; Faneull hall ; a linenmanufacturing houfe; awork-houfe,a bridewell ; a public granary ; anda very fine wharf, ac lead half amile long, undertaken at
. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. nd from a hill, whichftands clofe to the town, where thereis a beacon erefted to alarm theneighbourhood in cafe of any fur-prife, is one of the fined profpecls,the mod beautifully variegated, andrichly grouped, of any, without ex-ception, that I have ever feen. The chief pubhc buildings arethree churches ; thirteen or four-teen meeting-houfes ; the gover-nors palace; the court-houfe, orexchange ; Faneull hall ; a linenmanufacturing houfe; awork-houfe,a bridewell ; a public granary ; anda very fine wharf, ac lead half amile long, undertaken at the ex-pence of a number of private gen-tlemen, for the advantage of un-loading and. loading veJOfels. Moltof thefe buildings are handfome :the church called Kings Chapel, isexceedingly elegant, and fitted upin the Corinthian tade. There isalfo an elegantprlvate concert-room,highly finidied, in the Ionic man-ner. The fituallon of the datecfMafr *fachufstts-Eay -^i-^-i^:&ii>^ ^-^^j«fej. iA^i-iJ^^:.,- .,,L.^.L^-^.i> ^../r >r.,,. Q / //^/^^^/^^^ i| ^^ -sr *l*^ 4^ 4P W ^ ^ h THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE, For DECEMBER, 1787. A DESCRIPTION OF BOSTON; - iVU/> a View of the Town of Boston, fnely engravedi. BOSTON, the metropolis ofMaffachufetts-Bay, in New-England, is one of the largeft and• moft flourifhing towns in North A-merica. It is fituated upon a penin-fula, or rather an ifland, joined to thecontinent by an ifthmus, or of land, half a mile in length,at the bottom of a fpacious and no-ble harbour, defended from the feaby a number of fmall iflands. Thelength of it is nearly two miles, andthe breadth of it half a one ; andit is fuppofed to contain 3000 hou-fes, and iS or 20,000 the entrance of the harbourflands a very good light-houfe ; andupon an itland, about a league fromthe town, a confiderable caille,mounting near 150 cannon: Therearc feveral good batteries about it,and one in particular very rtrong,built by Mr. Shirley. Ihere arealf
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