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��Concord, New Hampshire.

��all the growth of the ])asl two-score years. On one's return to the city, he passes, at the base of Rattlesnake, numerous establishments where busy workmen fashion the granite (juarried from the neighboring hillside.

To return to the summit, the view on every side is pleasing. Throughout the

��All around the horizon they loom \\\), and by the aid of a map can be easily distinguished. Here, sometime in the future, will be built a grand hotel.

A ride of seventy-five miles brings one from Boston, Passing up on to Main Street, his point of departure in viewing the city should be the State

���STATESMAN BUILDING.

��city are fine old farm-houses, shaded by overhanging elms, the growth of a hundred years or more, surrounded by orchards and fertile fields and pastures. The roads wind up and down the hills, and through shady glades where the sun is screened at mid-day. Large barns indicate great crops, and testify that the owners are " well-to-do." Be- yond the limits of the city, on every hand, are the hills and mountains for which New Hampshire is celebrated.

��House. Situated in a spacious square in the heart of the city, it is an effec- tive piece of architecture. The body of the building is of dark surface gran- ite, constructed many years ago ; while the elegant Doric facade, built since the War of Rebellion, is the choice pro- duction of Rattlesnake quarries. With- in, the rotunda is embellished by the tattered flags of New-Hampshire regi- ments, borne on a hundred Southern battle-fields ; the council chamber has

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