Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . tates, 11,000,000. The Market is situated between North and South Mar-ket Streets, in each of which business of various kinds, toimmense amounts, is transacted. Leaving the Market, a few steps through CommercialStreet bring us to the United States Custom is an imio ing ed fice, standng at the head of the dockbetween Long and Central Wharves, at the foot of StateStreet. It is in the form of a Greek cross, the oppositesides and ends being alike. It is one hundred and fortyfeet long, north and south, seventy-five feet wide at theen
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . tates, 11,000,000. The Market is situated between North and South Mar-ket Streets, in each of which business of various kinds, toimmense amounts, is transacted. Leaving the Market, a few steps through CommercialStreet bring us to the United States Custom is an imio ing ed fice, standng at the head of the dockbetween Long and Central Wharves, at the foot of StateStreet. It is in the form of a Greek cross, the oppositesides and ends being alike. It is one hundred and fortyfeet long, north and south, seventy-five feet wide at theends, and ninety-five feet t!n-ough the centre. It is sur-mounted by a flat dome, which is ninety-five f-ct from 12 BOSTOX AND VICINITT. the floor, and is built in the pure Doric order of architeclure. Each front has a portico of six fluted Doric col-umns, thirty-two feet in height, and five feet four inches in rliamrtcr. nnd i-; npproachod by fourteen steps. Tlie col-•.iiiiiis arc ill one piece of highly-wrought granite, and eachweighs forty-two The Custom House is built on three thousand piles,driven in the most thorough manner. Immediately on thetop of these i)iles is a platform of granite, one foot sixinches thick, laid in hydraulic cement, and upon it thefoundation- of the walls were commenced. BOSTOX AXI) VKJINITY. 13 The roof of the building is covered with wrought gran-ite tile, and the intersection of the cross is surmounted bya dome terminating in a skyHght twenty-five feet in diam-eter. The dome is also covered with granite tile. The cellar, which is ten feet six inches high to of the arches, is principally used for the storage ofgoods, which are conveyed to it through the basementstoiy. The principal ingress to the entrance story is throughthe porticos. This story contains apartments and officesfor the assistant treasurer, the weighers and gaugers, themeasurers, inspectors, markeis, superintendent of build-ing, &c. In the centre is a large Aestibule
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