shoe and harness factories. Also the important fishing towns of Gloucester, Yarmouth and Provincetown.
It has over three hundred miles of coast line, bordering on the Atlantic ocean, with the principal harbors at Boston, Salem, Beverly, New Bedford and Marblehead.
Shipbuilding is largely carried on at Boston, Newburyport and Essex. The largest arsenal and armory in the United States is at Springfield. The State has numerous universities, colleges and normal schools, in addition to its excellent public schools. Boston is well supplied with depots. Besides numerous smaller ones, it has the beautiful New South Terminal station of the Michigan Central, Boston and Albany, and New York Central Railways, which is one of the finest and largest railway depots in the world, and is conveniently
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