I hope you will excuse the forwardness of one of your young friends, in writing so much about her little affairs; but I know you have kind feelings for children.
Yours, respectfully, Mary L. C.
Boston, Aug. 14, 1843.
Dear Mr. Merry:
Will you allow one of your young readers to contribute the following geographical enigma?
I am composed of 17 letters.
- My 2, 9, 9, 17, 11, is a county in Massachusetts.
- My 15, 6, 8, 4, 5, 10, 9, is a town in Mississippi.
- My 12, 14, 8, 8, 2, 16, 6, 8, is a strait in the north of Europe.
- My 9, 6, 5, 14, 3, 14, is a desert in Africa.
- My 8, 10, 2, 9, is a river in England.
- My 1, 6, 4, 14, 9, 9, 6, 3, is a strait in Asia.
- My 10, 11, 2, 8, 17, 3, is a town in New Hampshire.
- My 8, 2, 7, 15, 17, 9, 9, 10, 17, is one of the United States.
- My 16, 6, 7, 16, 10, 9, is a celebrated river in Asia.
- My 1, 14, 7, is an island in the Irish Sea.
- My 8, 17, 11, 6, 9, is a country in North America.
- My 15, 6, 5, 14, 7, 8, is a celebrated peninsula in Massachusetts.
- My 16, 3, 10, 17, 4, 2, is a celebrated country in Europe.
- My 8, 13, 6, 1, 10, 9, is a river in England.
- My 5, 14, 8, 8, 17, 3, 6, 9, is a cape in the United States.
- My 1, 6, 15, 4, 5, 2, 9, 8, 10, 3, is a manufacturing town in England.
- My 2, 6, 9, 8, 13, 14, 1, is a town in Massachusetts.
- My whole is a public building in Boston.
N. B