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VGW(HU.768.157
15 Dec 1768:12 (917)
Boston. . . Nov. 11. What an appearance does Boston now
make! One of the first commercial towns in America, has now
several regiments of soldiers quartered in the midst of it,
and even the Merchants Exchange is piquetted, and made the
spot where the main guard is placed and paraded, and their
cannon mounted; so that, instead of our merchants and
trading people transacting their business, we see it filled
with Red Coats, and have our ears dinned with the music of
the drum and fife.--How would the merchants of London be
startled if they should behold their Exchange thus
metemorphosed?
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