ds since early colonial days.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] On the alteration of streets alone $26,691,496 were expended from
1822 to 1880.

[2] Faneuil Hall is the headquarters of the Ancient and Honourable
Artillery Company of Boston, the oldest military organization of the
country, organized in 1638.

[3] The dam is 1250 ft. long, with a maximum height of 129 ft., only
750 ft. having a depth of more than 40 ft. from high water to rock.
The entire surface of the basin was scraped to bed rock, sand or
mineral earth, this alone costing $3,000,000. Connected with the
reservoir is an aqueduct, of which 2 m. are tunnel and 7 m. covered
masonry. The metropolitan system as planned in 1905 for the near
future contemplated storage for 80,000,000,000 gallons, reservoirs
holding 2,200,000,000 gallons for immediate use, aqueducts capable of
carrying 420,000,000 gallons daily, and a minimum daily supply of
173,000,000 gallons.

[4] In 1851 the mayor of the English Boston sent over a copy of that
city's seals, framed in oak from St Botolph's church, of which John
Cotton, the famous Boston divine (he came over in 1633) had been
vicar. The seals now hang in the city hall. In 1855 a number of
Americans, including Charles Francis Adams and Edward Everett, and
also various descendants of Cotton, united to restore the south-west
chapel of St Botolph's church, and to erect in it a memorial tablet
to Cotton's memory. The total amount raised by subscription for this
purpose was L673.

BOSTON, a game of cards invented during the last quarter of the 18th
century. It is said to have originated in Boston, Massachusetts, during
the siege by the British. It seems to have been invented by the officers
of the French fleet which lay for a time off the town of Marblehead, and
the name of the two small islands in Marblehead harbour which have, from
the period of the American Revolution, been called Great and Little
Misery, correspond with expressions used in the game. William Tudor, in
his _Letters on the Eastern States_, published in 1821, states somewhat
differently that "A game of cards was invented in Versailles and called
in honour of the town, Boston; the points of the game are allusive,
'great independence,' 'little independence,' 'great misery,' 'little
misery,' &c. It is composed partly of whist and partly of quadrille,
though partaking mostly of the for