A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . hurches,and several other public buildings. Con-cord has about eight hundred and fiftydwelling-houses, and a population ofabout nine thousand. The Statehouse, a beautiful structure,appropriately built of granite, is onehundred and twenty-six feet in length,and forty-nine in breadth. It occupiesa conspicuous situation, surrounded bya fine park. The view from the cupolais very extensive and picturesque. Thehalls of the house of representatives andthe senate contain
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . hurches,and several other public buildings. Con-cord has about eight hundred and fiftydwelling-houses, and a population ofabout nine thousand. The Statehouse, a beautiful structure,appropriately built of granite, is onehundred and twenty-six feet in length,and forty-nine in breadth. It occupiesa conspicuous situation, surrounded bya fine park. The view from the cupolais very extensive and picturesque. Thehalls of the house of representatives andthe senate contain several works of art ;among which are a portrait of CountRumford, the founder of the town, afterwhom it was originally named, and afull-length likeness of Washington (afterStuart) by Walter Ingalls, a native-artistof the granite state,whose lifelike portraitshave, both in his own country and abroad,given him a high rank in his profession. A few years since, but a single rail-road extended to Concord ; but severalroads now radiate from this busy town,and the enterprise of the people, beingonce awakened to their true interests,. 30 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. will not rest till the iron bands, whichare drawing the extremes of our wide-spread country nearer and nearer, shallextend to every section of the state,and even to the commercial metropolisof Canada. Manchester.—This city is one of theyoungest but most flourishing manu-facturing places in the state. It wascommenced with activity, by a largeBoston company, about ten years ago,at one of the best sites for water-poweron the Merrimac, and has rapidly in-creased in business. Pop. 20,000. Thesoil is sandy, and the situation favorableonly for the objects for which the townhas been built; but the prospects areflattering for permanent and increasingprosperity. The good regulations es-tablished in most of the other laigemanufacturing places in New England,have been, from the first, adopted here,and the results are hi
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