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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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scopal church. Many of the societyof quakers, or friends, afterward joinedI him, whose descendants form a lart;ei share of the population of the state.Broirn Unirvrslti/, the principal in-stitution of learning in the state, is builton the summit of a hiirh hill, decoratedwith some of the finest houses in thispart of the country, dispersed amongspacious gardens, and mingling the de-lights of the country with the splendorof a city. It was founded in 1764; hasabout one hundred and fifty students ;and its library contains twenty-five thou-sand volumes. The academy, near the college, is alarge institut.on, and was established byI the friends, or quakers. A man in borijig for water, a few yearsago, at the end of a wharf, many yardsdistant from the original land, boredthrough a stream of mud; then througha bog meadow, containing good peat;then through a sand and quartz gravel.At this point, water impregnated withcopperas and arsenic broke forth ; but,! determining to proceed further, he next
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struck a vineyard and drew up vines,grapes, grape-seeds, leaves, acorns, ha-zelnuts, pinenuts, and the seeds of un-know^n fruits, together with pure water.This was thirty-five feet below the bedof the river. The Boston and Providence Railroad,forty-one miles in length, begins at Indiawharf, in Providence, near the steaml)oatlanding, and, passing through the town,leads through Foxboro, Walpole, Ded-ham, Roxbury, and other towns. Itwas opened in 1835, and cost nearly twomillions of dollars; the curvatures aregentle ; least radius, five thousand sevenhundred and thirty feet; highest grade,thirty-seven and a half feet; summit inShaion, two hundred and fifty-six feetabove tide. There is a viaduct of gran-ite in Canton, seven hundred feet long,and above sixty feet high, over Nepon-set valley. There are many embank-ments and excavations in rock. Blackstone Canal.—This canal, whichreaches from Providence to Worcester,Massachusetts, runs along the course ofthe Blackstone river for several mi

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