Various - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I

When I visited Boston, in 1848, it was estimated that two hundred and thirty trains of cars went daily over the roads to and from Boston, and that more than six millions of passengers were conveyed in them during the preceding year.

Job, xxxix. 24, 25.

On some old maps of Boston it is called Corpse Hill , the name supposed to have been derived from the circumstance of a burying-ground being there.

The following is the inscription upon the slate tablet: "The Reverend Doctors Increase, Cotton, and Samuel Mather were interred in this vault.

This society was incorporated in February, 1794. The avowed object of its organization is to collect, preserve, and communicate materials for a complete history of this country, and an account of all valuable efforts of human industry and ingenuity from the beginning of its settlement. Between twenty and thirty octavo volumes of its "Collections" have been published.

From Abbott's "History of Madame Roland," soon to be issued from the press of Harper & Brothers.

From " The Island World ," a new work soon to be issued from the press of Messrs. Harper and Brothers.

Anne Dysart, a Tale of Every-day Life. 3 vols. London: Colburn. 1850.

Bad orthography was by no means uncommon in the most important documents at that period; the days of the week, in the day-books of the Bank of England itself, are spelled in a variety of ways.

Francis's History of the Bank of England.

Dr. Buckland

The theory of the original incandescence of the earth has been much debated, but we believe it is gaining ground among geologists.