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:" The town is populous, tho ' not large, the streets broad, but the buildings old, and low ; however, there is good company and a good deal of it ; and a man that coveted a retreat in this world might as agreeably spend his time, and as well in Dorchester, as in any town I know in England ".

-- Daniel Defoe, in his A tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain ( 1724-1726 ).