scape visible through the driving, splashing rain, as I with Irish
American gazed out at the rear door of the Cars. Verily civilized
Anglo Saxon with all his mammon worship is a million times a nobler
creature than the howling, dogged red Indian, and has justly ousted
him. More rain, some stoppages, more water below, and we
cross a swampy pod-besprinkled flat, and have done our 250
miles and are in Boston. Shake hands with Americo-Irelander,
and in ten wet minutes arrive at Morton Place Milk Street. About
7 in the morning. A dry before kitchen fire, then breakfast, then
ascent into bar-sitting room, where I sit down and score up this relen-
tical day and a halfs-cronichle. Cigar, newspapers and at 1/2 past 1
dinner, and a capital one too. Then a stroll, up Washington Street, and
environs, the Common, the State-house, the notable tea-wharf.
Return, and at about 7, to bed.
24. Monday. Amends for last nights wakefulness by sleeping till
past eight. Breakfast. Wrote to Wing at Fall River, and to Brid-
gens, at Philadelphia. Then, with drawings under arm to Post Office,
and subsequently to Washington Street Publishers. Phillips and Sampson
&c. Newspaper Editors Offices. Wood Engraver. Thus, busily en-
gaged all the morning. Back to dinner, then out again, (only with-
out drawings), as a�looker on in Vienna �. To the Common � fine
well-treed enclosure. Entred the State House and ascended to the top
from which is obtainable a noble view. Charlestown with its Bunker
Hill monument, the Cochituate-water Reservoir, Medical Colledge