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To some of the principal towns, with their distances from BOSTON.

NOTICE, that the distances inserted are from

one established tavern to another.

Fr. Boston to New Over the Ferry to

port over Seekonk, thro' Rehoboth.

Miles.

9 Claremont
Cornish
91 Windsor

Bristol, &Newport. Dartmouth Coll.

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Warren

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Bristol

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Cape Cod.

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Newport.

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Cavendish

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Neponset Bridge

Hanover

Pembroke

Duxbury

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Road to N.Bedford. Pittsford
Dorchester

5 Quincy
6 Weymouth

Abington
East Bridgewater.
Bridgewater

3 Salisbury

4 Middlebury
3 Vergennes
5 Ferrisburg
3 Charlotte..
10 Sherburne

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Ferry to Montreal 9 Volentowr.

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3,929,827 5,305,925 7,280,3149,638,131 12,866,020|17,054,724 2,483,880

Est. pop. of Lafayette Parish, La., not included in the above, Seamen in U. S. service, January 1, 1840,

7,832 Slaves in 6,100 1830,

Grand Total,

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23,364 Portland.

23,171 Salem

. 21,210 New Haven

20,153 Norfolk

15,082

. 14.390

21,115 Hartford.

. 12.793

20,796 Utica, N. Y.
20,191 Savannah

12,782

11,214

. 10,920

18.213 Bangor

8,627

16,469 Lexington, Ky.

6,997

15,218 Natchez

4,800

There are said to be but six European cities larger than New York, viz., London, which contains a population of 1,650,000; París. 900.000; Constantinople, 500,000; St. Petersburgh, 465,000; Naples, 364,000; and Vienna, 333,000.

COMPARISON OF SPEED.

A French scientific journal states that the ordinary rate is per second,

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ELECTORAL VOTES-CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT.

The number of Electors of President and Vice President, under the apportionment of 1842, will be 275, (instead of 294, as in 1840,) of which 138 will of course be necessary for a choice. The apportionment bill of 1842 allows one member for 70.630 of population, and a representative for each fraction over one half the ratio. This will give a House of Representatives of 223 members, instead of 212, the present

number.

A TABLE

For foretelling the Weather through all the Lunations of each Year, forever.

This table and the accompanying remarks are the result of many years' actual ob servation, the whole being constructed on a due consideration of the attraction of the sun and moon, in their several positions respecting the earth, and will by simple inspection show the observer what kind of weather will most probably follow the entrance of the moon into any of its quarters, and that so near the truth as to be seldom or never found to fail.

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Observations.-1. The nearer the time of the moon's change, first quarter, full and last quarter, are to midnight, the fairer will the weather be during the seven days following.

2. The space for this calculation occupies from ten at night till two next morning. 3. The nearer to midday, or noon, the phases of the moon happen, the more foul or wet weather may be expected during the next seven days.

4. The space for this calculation occupies from ten in the forenoon to two in the afternoon. These observations refer principally to the summer, though they affect spring and autumn nearly in the same ratio.

5. The moon's change, first quarter, full and last quarter, happening during six of the afternoon hours, i. e. from four to ten, may be followed by fair weather; but this is mostly dependent on the wind, as is noted in the table.

6. Though the weather, from a variety of irregular causes, is more uncertain in the latter part of autumn, the whole of winter, and the beginning of spring, yet, in the main, the above observations will apply to those periods also.

7. To prognosticate correctly, especially in those cases where the wind is concerned, the observer should be within sight of a good vane, where the four cardinal points of the heavens are correctly placed.

The above table was originally formed by Dr. Herschell, and is now published with some alterations founded on the experience of Dr. Adam Clarke.

MILITARY FINES IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Every noncommissioned officer or private who shall appear on parade not completely equipped according to law, shall forfeit and pay the following suns or files for the equipments with which he is not provided, viz.

A gun, 80 cents. Priming-wire and brush, 10 cents. A steel or iron ramrod, 20 cents. A bayonet, scabbard and belt, 25 cents. A rifle, 100 cents. A pistol 40 cts. A sword, 40 cents. Two spare flints, 10 cents. A cartridge box, capable of containing twenty-four rounds, 25 cents. A cavalry cartridge box, 25 cents. A knapsack, A canteen, 10 cents. A valise, 20 cents. Holsters, 20 cents.

20 cents.

A short and easy Method of casting Compound Interest, at six per cent. RULE.-Multiply the given sum, if

For 2 years, by 1.1236
For 3 years, by 1.191016
For 4 years, by 1.262476
For 5 years, by 1.338225

For 7 years, by 1.503630

For 6 years, by 1.418519

For 8 years, by 1.593848
For 9 years, by 1.689478
For 10 years, by 1.790847
For 11 years, by 1.898298

Note. This will give the amount of principal and compound interest for the given number of years. Subtract the principal from the amount, and it will show the compound interest. Any sum of money at compound interest will double itself in eleven years. ten months and twenty-two days.

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