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A history of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, from its origin to the present period
Caleb H. Snow · 1825 · Scanned text
183,486 words · about 12 h 51 min to read
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1825, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/01012241); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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- Caleb H. Snow
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1825
- Length
- 183,486 words · about 12 h 51 min
- Sections
- 34 reader sections
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- Rights
- Public domain
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Contents (34)
- Front matter about 1 min
- Preface about 9 min
- Introduction about 8 min
- Chapter II about 6 min
- CHAPTER III. " Welcome, welcome, Englishmen !" about 9 min
- Chapter IV about 6 min
- CHAPTER V. " Westward the star of empire rolls its way." about 8 min
- Chapter VI about 11 min
- Chapter VII about 12 min
- Chapter VIII about 13 min
- Chapter IX about 3 min
- Chapter X about 14 min
- Chapter XII about 35 min
- CHAPTER XIV. " Ah me ! outstretchM I see about 13 min
- CHAPTER XV. Emerging from a sea of dreams about 15 min
- Chapter XVI about 10 min
- CHAPTER XVII. Let discipline employ Iier wholesome arts about 18 min
- Chapter XIX about 21 min
- CHAPTER XX. It would be no unprofitable thing for you about 10 min
- Chapter XXI about 15 min
- Chapter XXII about 17 min
- CHAPTER XXIV. " I'll tear her to pieces ! about 14 min
- Chapter XXV about 9 min
- Chapter XXVI about 12 min
- CHAPTER XXVII. Sermons in stones, and good iu every thing about 24 min
- Chapter XXIX about 13 min
- Chapter XXX about 20 min
- CHAPTER XXXI. " Ami now the trying bour came on about 18 min
- Chapter XXXIII about 4 min
- Chapter XXXIV about 5 min
- Chapter XXXV about 9 min
- Chapter XXXVI about 6 h
- Dedication about 24 min
- Index about 6 min
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