. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . p, might have been seen inthe vicinity, and all excitement have been confined to apalaver around the council-fire. But a truce to the past;it is Dock-square, and nothing else, now. And, in lieu of groves or glades, we have a busy, openspace, with labyrinthine thoroughfares leading into and outof it. Bustling, anxious-faced men are to be seen thereat all hours of the day, rushing hither and thither, intenton dollars and dimes. House and hotel keepers payflying visits to the market close by; visitors from all partsof the States look cur
. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . p, might have been seen inthe vicinity, and all excitement have been confined to apalaver around the council-fire. But a truce to the past;it is Dock-square, and nothing else, now. And, in lieu of groves or glades, we have a busy, openspace, with labyrinthine thoroughfares leading into and outof it. Bustling, anxious-faced men are to be seen thereat all hours of the day, rushing hither and thither, intenton dollars and dimes. House and hotel keepers payflying visits to the market close by; visitors from all partsof the States look curiously at the Cradle of Liberty; omnibuses rush along, distracting perilled pedestrians; 5 DOCK-SQUARE. 3 market-carts, laden with country produce, stand sur-rounded by dealers, and everything is full of life andanimation. Looking calmly down upon and over-shadowing this scene of commercial activity, is a hugestructure — Faneuil Hall. Of it we shall presentlyspeak. At present let us direct our glance to — artis-tically speaking— a bit of Old Old House. — There it stands at the corner of Northand Market streets, dingy, quaint, time-battered, many-gabled, but picturesque, for all that. They say it was built 4 BOSTON SKmTS. in the year 1680, soon after the great fire of 1679. Thepeaks of the roof remaia precisely as they were firsterected, the frame and external appearance never havingbeen altered. The timber used in the building was prin-cipally oak, and, where it has been kept dry, is perfectlysound, and intensely hard. The outside is covered withplastering, or what is commonly called rough-cast. Butinstead of pebbles, which are generally used at the presentday to make a hard surface on the mortar, broken glasswas used. This glass appears like that of common junk-bottles, broken into pieces of about half an inch diameter,the sharp corners of which penetrate the cement in such amanner that this great lapse of years hashad no percep-tible efiect upon them. The fig
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