Dorchester Polytechnic Academy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Danville, as everybody knows who has traveled, is on the shores of the Atlantic ocean. A somewhat vague description, but it is all that is necessary for the present. Danville contains, besides others of less Importance, one long street, called Main Street, at the foot of which is Mr. Hiram Higgins' store, where dry goods and groceries, brooms and molasses, are sold to the villagers - forgive me I meant citizens of Danville; for Danville, albeit a small place, has a Mayor and Common Council, 15 lighted with a few feeble gas lamps, and is an undoubted city.

The street is long, and the road white with powdered oyster shells. The business part of the street has the Bank, the Court House, the First Presbyterian Church - so called because there is a second feebler sister in one of the bye-streets, where Elder Muggins has presided for now twelve years - the Methodist Episcopal Church, which is built of brick, and looks like the Parthenon, at Athens, or is supposed to do so; the Public Hall, where concerts and moral entertainments are given, and a few stores besides. After you pass them, come the best houses of the town.

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