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Rh Charleston, Somerville, Back Bay, Cambridge and Brookline. Also State street, famous in history, and the state capitol, where hundreds of flags of the Indian, Revolutionary and Civil Wars are kept for public inspection, showing, all tattered and torn and with many blood stains, what the early settlers of this patriotic city had to undergo.

I also visited the site of Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill monument, Harvard university, Boston public gardens, Faneuil hall, public library, art galleries and many monuments and statues.

One day, as I was viewing the statue of a long since departed hero, a Bostonian eastern friend, who was showing me the sights of the city, said: "You have nothing like this in the west." I appeared to be sad, and said "No." He looked at me with pity, which caused me to smile, remarking