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Identifier: gazetteerofstate00naso (find matches)
Title: A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nason, Elias, 1811-1887 Varney, George J. (George Jones), 1836-1901
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Gazetteers
Publisher: Boston : B.B. Russell
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Other elevations are Pomeroy Hill in the Brighton district,Mount Washington in South Boston, Orient Heighsin East Bos-ton, Powder-Horn Hill in Chelsea, Winthrop Head, Mount Bowdoinin the Dorchester district, Bunker Hill in the Charlestown district,and Beacon Hill, marking nearly the corporate centre of Boston andof the county. The Charles and the Mystic rivers flow through its ♦For statement of the form and changes of the government of the Massachusetts Colony,consult the article entitled Civil History, in the section devoted to the State, in tho lirblpart of this volume. 90 GAZETTEEB OF MASSACHUSETTS. territory to the sea, while the Neponset River forms its boundaryline on the southeast. The county also includes Boston Harbor andRevere Beach. The geological formation is the St. Johns group,sienite and trap, with an area of conglomerate (Roxbury pudding-stone) in the southern section, and ledges of slate in the harbor.Beds of clay and peat are found in several localities. The north-
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id<n o ou fa eastern part is marshy, but the surface deposit in the higher por-tions is chiefly drift. The number of farms in the county is 204, embracing about 4,500acres. The green-house product shows the most marked variationfrom other counties, being in 1885, 148,767. The total product was$008,985. There were 5,472 manufacturing establishments, produc- SUFFOLK. 9L ing a great variety of goods; whose aggregate value is given in thelast census report as $149,281,727. There is also a considerablefishery interest, whose product, in 1885, was valued at $466,074.There were engaged in this industry 51 schooners, 1 brig, 317 dories,and 36 seine boats. The merchant marine consisted of 67 barks, 19barkentines, 20 brigs, 201 schooners, 33 ships, 12 sloops, 130 steam-vessels. These had a total tonnage of 8il,617. The number ofassessed dwelling-houses was 54,433. The valuation of the countyin 1888 was $5791,944,763. The public schools were provided for in 182 buildings (besidesseveral hired

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