A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . ght, five feet one inch by three feeteisfht inches at the intersection of thecross. The columns are each in onepiece, of highly-wrought granite, cost-in<r about five thousand dollars. The building is founded on about threethousand piles, driven in the most thor-ough manner; immediately on the headsof these is laid a platform of granite, inthe best hydraulic cement mortar. The ; large central business-room is sixty-five by sixty-eight feet, and sixty feet high tothe skylight of the dome, and is finishedin a very elaborate manner in t
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . ght, five feet one inch by three feeteisfht inches at the intersection of thecross. The columns are each in onepiece, of highly-wrought granite, cost-in<r about five thousand dollars. The building is founded on about threethousand piles, driven in the most thor-ough manner; immediately on the headsof these is laid a platform of granite, inthe best hydraulic cement mortar. The ; large central business-room is sixty-five by sixty-eight feet, and sixty feet high tothe skylight of the dome, and is finishedin a very elaborate manner in the C<n-inthian order. There are twelve flutedmarble columns, three feet in diameterby twenty-nine feet high, highly wroughtout of Egremont marble, having capitalsof Italian marble, designed and wroughtliere, of the most chaste and classic I character. The rest of the interior isfinished in a plain and simple style, andfireproof throughout, mostly stone floors,irondoors, &:c. The building is warmed and ventil-ated by an apparatus, the heating being. 92 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. combined with the ventilation, and ef-fected in part by mechanical means. The Athenoium, at the south end ofPearl street, is open daily to strangersintroduced by members, and contains avaluable library of about forty thousandvolumes, and about fourteen thousandcoins and medals. In the rear is thegallery of fine arts, with is a collectionof statues, paintings, &c. The medicalcollege is in Mason street; the Massa-chusetts Historical societys libraiy inFranklin sti-eet; New England museumin Court street; eye and ear infirmary;Massachusetts general hospital. At Chailestown are the stateprison,conducted on the improved plan ; theUnited States navy-yard, with dry-dock,ship-houses, &c.; and the insane hos-pital. The hills at Dorchester, Roxbury,Brighton, Cambridge, Charlestown, &c.,together with the numerous islands pro-tecting the harbor, form an amphithe-atre, very regular and beautiful, wh
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