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Title: Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894 Andrew, John, 1815-1875, egr. Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1875, egr. Hill George W., 1815-1893, egr. Barry, egr.
Subjects: Boston (Mass.)--Guidebooks Boston (Mass.)--History Boston (Mass.)--Public buildings Railroads--Massachusetts--Boston Railroads--Massachusetts--Boston--Stations Cemeteries--Massachusetts--Boston Boston Harbor Islands (Mass.)--Description Churches--Massachusetts--Boston Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Boston Theatres--Massachusetts--Boston Associations, institutions, etc.--Massachusetts--Boston Travel literature--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century Guidebooks--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century Advertisements--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century
Publisher: John P. Jewett & Co. Jewett, Proctor & Worthington
Contributing Library: Elms College
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ffs — dashing into the roughgorges — thundering in the subterranean caverns of rocks,and throwing the white foam and spray, like vast columnsof smoke, hundreds of feet in the air, above the tallestcliffs — an appearance is presented which the wildestimagination cannot surpass. Then the ocean — checkedin its headlong career by a simple bar of sand — as ifmad with its detention, roars like protracted thunder; andthe wild sea birds, borne along by the furious waters, aredashed to death against the cliffs. Standing at such anhour upon the rocks, I have seen the waves bend bars ofiron an inch in diameter double, float rocks of granite six-teen feet in length, as if they were timbers of wood, andthe wind, seizing the white gull in its irresistible embrace,bear her, shrieking, many miles into Lynn woods. Insummer a day at Nahant is delightful; and a storm mwinter is glorious, but terrible. CHAPTER XX BOSTON HARBOR. ISLANDS. FARM SCHOOL. ALMS-HOUSE. FORT INDEPENDENCE. FORT WINTHROP.
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The readiest way of regaining the city is to take pas-sage on board that trim little steamer, the Nelly Baker.The trip occupies only about forty minutes, and is one of (190) ISLANDS IN BOSTON HAIlliOR. FARM SCHOOL. 191 the most delightful that can be imagined. Shooting offfrom the rocky peninsula, and leaving behind Nahant,with its enchanting associations, we have time, as the littlesteamer goes puffing along, to see the Islands in BostonHarbor ; and if there are natural beauties, romantic ele-vations, or silent and wild retreats in the vicinity of Bos-ton, they are in the harbor. These islands are graduallywearing away; and where large herds of cattle once fed,the ocean now rolls its angry billows, and lashes with anoverwhelming surge the last remains of earth. We can see the Lower Lights or, farther off, the smokerising from Hull. Nearer by, Georges Island^ with com-manding Fort Warren upon it, ready to annihilate anyintruder; (this island is the key to the harbor, command-ing the o

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