There the Duchess of Monmouth used to hold her drawing-rooms in an apartment which many a New England journeyman mechanic would hardly think ample and comfortable enough for his parlor.

There is a curious conical mound in the town, called the Moat-hill, which looks like a great, green carbuncle.

It is thought by some to be a Druidical monument, but is quite involved in a mystery which no one has satisfactorily solved.

It is strange that no persistent and successful effort has been made to let day- light through it.

Some workmen a long time ago undertook to perforate it, but were frightened away by a thunder-storm, which they seemed to take as a reproof and threatened punishment for their profanity.