Excerpt from The Boston Almanac for the Year 1850 The advent of the year 1850, frauwht with Time's mutations, invites the Fifteenth annual issue of the cboston Almanac. The endeavor has been made to sustain its previous high reputation and improve with the progress of the times. Several new features will be observed in the present number. The railroad map, accurately compiled, ex ressly for this work, presents a view of the iron channels through whicfi flows and will continue to flow the prosperity of our favored city; the plan is intended to embrace all roads now (or soon to be) in operation. It is hoped that the vignettes of the chiefs of the nation, presented in the astronomical pages, will commend themselves as an humble tribute in honor ofthe most perfect system of human government ever devised. The short sketches of the Presidents accompanying them are believed to com prise information not generally held, nor easily accessible. These, and the account of the city administration, in its various departments, and the public improvements in Boston, have been prepared with care and abili by a gentleman familiar with the affairs of the cit The great hive of usiness is indexed afresh in the directory, an much Of its activig' presented more fully in the Advertising pages. The whole is submitte without lengthened comment, to the judgment of patrons. 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.