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Excerpt from The District School as It Was: Scenery-Showing, and Other Writings The following work was first published in Boston in 1833, and. Was received with unqualified favor. A second and larger edition was issued in New York, with equal success. Several hundred of this edition were purchased by a distinguished friend of education, in a neighboring State, ' (henry Barnard, Esq., of Conn.) and dis tributed for the purpose of suggesting ideas of reform. It was republished in London a few years ago, as giving a faith ful description of one of the Institutions of New England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.