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II is divided into 14 counties, and 290 towns. It has on an average 81 personseach square mile, and is the most thickly settled state in the union.
TABLE OF THE COUNTIES AND COUNTY TOWNS.
Counties.
Males.
Females.
Colored. 1
Tot. Pop.
County Towns.
Pop.
Distance
Suffolk
e
28 t 58t>
31,693
1,883
62,162
Boston
61,392
i Salem
13,886
14
Essex
Tie
39,431
42,929
527
82,887
•< Newburyport
6,388
37
/ Ipswich
2,951
27
Middlesex
m
38,107
39,343
513
77,968
\ Cambridge} Concord
6,071
2,017
3
17
Plymouth
e
20,905
21,678
410
42,993
Plymouth
4,751
36
Norfolk
e
20,436
21.296
169
41,901
Dedham
3,057
10
Bristol
8
23,366
25,178
930
49,474
7,592
6,045
52
32
Barnstable
SC
13,997
14,363
165
28,525
Barnstable
3,975
68
Nantucket
se
3,339
3,584
279
7,202
Nantucket
7,202
100
Dukes
se
1,702
41,545
1,768
48
3,518
Edgartown
1,509
97
Worcester
m
42,449
371
84,365
Worcester
4,172
39
14,999
14,995
225
30,210
Northampton
3,613
91
Hampden
sw
15,288
16,003
349
31,640
Springfield
6,784
87
Franklin
nw
14,447
14,765
132
29,341
Greenfield
1,540
95
Berkshire
1C
18,310
18,510
1,005
37,825
Lenox
1,355
133
Total
294,4-19
308,559
7,006
610,014
Population of Massachusetts at different periods.
In 1800, 422,845.
“ 1810, 472,040. Increase from 1800 to 1810, 49,195
“ 1820, 523,287. “ “ 1810 to 1820, 51,247
“ 1830, 610,014. “ “ 1820 to 1830, 86,727
Boston is the chief town . The other most considerable maritime towns areSalem, Newburyport, Marblehead, Beverly, Gloucester, Charlestown, Plymouth ,and New Bedford. Worcester, Northampton , Springfield, Greenfield, Pitts-field, Haverhill, Dedham, Lowell, Taunton , Concord, and many others arepleasant and flourishing inland towns.
The principal rivers are the Connecticut , Merrimack, Concord, Nashua,Charles, Mystic, Ncponset, Taunton , Chickapee, Deerfield, Westfield, Miller’s,and Housatonic.
The Middlesex Canal, which connects Boston harbor with the Merrimack, is30 miles long. It was completed in 1804, and was at that time the most consid-erable canal in the United States. Blackstone canal extends from Worcester to Providence , and is 45 miles in length.
Several different companies have been recently incorporated by the legisla-ture of this state for the purpose of constructing rail-roads ; one from Boston toWorcester; another from Boston to the river Hudson ; another from Boston toConnecticut river ; another from Boston to Providence by Pawtucket; anotherfrom Boston to Taunton ; another from Boston to Lowell; another from Boston to Lake Ontario, New York ; another from West Stockbridge to the boundaryline of the state of New York .
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