Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . urious. Close by, on Pleasant Street, is The Providence Railroad Depot, a fine brickstructure, and rather striking in its architecture. Theinterior arrangements are good, and unusually road is forty-three miles in length, and, joined withthe Stonington Line, which is properly a continuationof it, connects Boston with Long Island Sound. Thebranch roads uniting with this are the Dedham, Stough-ton, Taunton, and Attleboro roads. Cars leave the depot in Boston for Providence daily,stopping at Roxbury, which is two miles fro
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . urious. Close by, on Pleasant Street, is The Providence Railroad Depot, a fine brickstructure, and rather striking in its architecture. Theinterior arrangements are good, and unusually road is forty-three miles in length, and, joined withthe Stonington Line, which is properly a continuationof it, connects Boston with Long Island Sound. Thebranch roads uniting with this are the Dedham, Stough-ton, Taunton, and Attleboro roads. Cars leave the depot in Boston for Providence daily,stopping at Roxbury, which is two miles from the city,Jamaica Plain, three and a half miles. Canton, fourteen miles from Boston, is a beautifully- (81) 82 BOSTON SIGHTS. diversified and picturesque town, watered by the NeponsetBiver, which, with the numerous ponds in its vicinity,gives it an extensive water power. The railroad bridgewhich crosses the river at Canton is one of the finestpieces of masonry in the country. It is of hewn granite,is six hundred and twelve feet long, and elevated sixty-. three feet above the foundation, resting on six arches, witha succession of arches on top. Its cost exceeded ninetythousand dollars. Sharon, seventeen and a half miles from Boston, occu-pies the highest land between Boston and Providence. PUBLIC LIBRARY. 83 Its natural scenery is exceedingly fine. Mashapoag Pond,a beautiful sheet of water over a mile in length, rests upona bed of iron ore. During the low stages of the water,the ore is extracted by machines made for the and pleasure parties frequent this pond in thesummer season. Mansfield is twenty-four miles, Attleboro thirty-onemiles, Pawtucket thirty-nine miles, and Providence forty-three and a half miles from Boston.
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