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Identifier: kingshandbookofb1882swee (find matches)
Title: King's handbook of Boston harbor
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897 King, Moses, 1853-1909 Copeland, Charles, 1858-1929, ill
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher
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eaches hereabouts were strewn with wrecks,and ninety vessels and two hundred lives were lost in Massachusetts Bay,the stately barque Lloyd, bound from Havana to Boston, was drivenashore on Nantasket, the sea making a clean breach over her; and all onboard (except one) were lost. A year later the Hoogly, laden with coffee,drove up on the beach near Strawberry Hill, and went to pieces. Longis the roll of schooners and coasters whose keels have been broken onthese shining sands, while their crews scuttled ashore in the convenientdory, or were taken off by the securer life-boat. One of the most patheticincidents in the Nantasket annals occurred in 1722, when the Rev. JohnRobinson of Duxbury thus wrote: My dear, pious, virtuous, loving wifeHannah, and my dear and lovely daughter Mary, were both of them drownedin the sea near Nantasket Beach. It is only a single sentence, but howfull of sadness ! It comforts us to know that both the bodies were found(one of them having floated to Cape Cod).
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L.H.Galeucia Dei- views ON THE JERUSALEM ROAD. 72 KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. The land route to Nantasket is over the Old-Colony Railway, and thetime from Boston to the beach is about 45 minutes. The line runs througha country rich in picturesque scenery and historical associations, andabounding in ancient and populous villages. After leaving the city, it follows the shore for several miles, with

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