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Title: Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the settlers of Bostonfrom William Blaxton for £30 has been increasedover thirty times, until the city limits comprise23,661 acres ; this not by magic as it would seem,but by annexation of adjoining boroughs—Roxbury,Dorchester, Charlestown, and others—and by recla-mation of the seemingly hopeless marshy land to thenorth and south of the city. Tlie Back-Bay ^ district,the very centre of Bostons wealth, fashion and re-finement, the handsomest residence quarter inAmerica, is built upon this * made land, which itcost the city about $1,750,000 to fill in and otherwiserender solid. All good Bostonians, like the rest of their country-men, may wish to go to Paris when they die—that pointcannot be settled; but it is certain that they all wish togo to the Back-Bay while they live. And who canwonder? To drive at night down Commonwealthavenue, the most aristocratic street in this aristocraticquarter, is to view a scene from fairyland. ^TheAvenue itself is 250 feet wide from house to house
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SCEXES IX BOSTON. BOSTON AND ITS ENVIRONS. 41 and 175 feet wide from curb to curb, and in the centrea picturesque strip of parklaud, adorned with statuesand bordered witli ornamental trees and shrubs,follows its entire length. On either side of the streetstand j)alatial hotels and magnificent private resi-dences, from whose innumerable windows twinkle in-numerable lights, wliicli, mingling with the (piadruplerow of gas-lamps which look like a winding ribbon oflight, make the vista perfectly dazzling in its beauty.By day, when the Back Bay Park, the Public Garden,the fine bridge over the park water-way extension andthe handsome surroundino^ and intersectintr streets canbe seen, the view is even more attractive. In the newer parts of Boston the reproach ofcrooked streets, which has given her sister cities oppor-tunity for so much good-natured chaif, is removed,and the thoroughfares are laid out with such precisionthat ^ the wayfaring man, though a fool, can hardlyerr therein. In the bus

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