. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. irits by the country people. This is fortunate for the human race; andthe American industry will soon repair the smallloss it sustains from the decline of this fabricationof poisons. Massachusetts wishes to rival, in manu-factures, Connecticut and Pennsylvania; shehas, like the last, a society formed for the en-couragement of manufactures and industry. The greatest monuments of the industryof this state are the three bridges of Charles,Maiden, and Essex. Boston has the glory of having given the firstcollege
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. irits by the country people. This is fortunate for the human race; andthe American industry will soon repair the smallloss it sustains from the decline of this fabricationof poisons. Massachusetts wishes to rival, in manu-factures, Connecticut and Pennsylvania; shehas, like the last, a society formed for the en-couragement of manufactures and industry. The greatest monuments of the industryof this state are the three bridges of Charles,Maiden, and Essex. Boston has the glory of having given the firstcollege or university to the new world. It isplaced on an extensive plain, four miles fromBoston, at a place called Cambridge; the originof this useful institution was m 1636. The OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 365 imagination could not fix on a place that couldbetter unite all the conditions essential to a seatof education; sufficiently near to Boston toenjoy all the advantages of a communicationwith Europe and the rest of the world, and suffi-ciently distant not to expose the students to the. A WESTERLY VIEW OF THE COLLEGES IN CAMBRIDGE, NEW ENGLANDFrom an old print contagion of licentious manners common incommercial towns. The air of Cambridge is pure, and the en-vironments charming, offering a vast space forthe exercise of the youth. The buildings are large, numerous, and welldistributed. But, as the number of the studentsaugments every day, it will be necessary soon toaugment the buildings. The library, and thecabinet of philosophy, do honor to the first contains 13,000 volumes. The heart 366 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS of a Frenchman palpitates on finding the worksof Racine, of Montesquieu, and the Encyclo-paedia where 150 years ago, arose the smoke ofthe savage calumet. The regulation of the course of studies hereis nearly the same as that at the university ofOxford. I think it impossible but that the lastrevolution must introduce a great reform. Freemen ought to strip thems
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