What to see in America . hese is Brookline,which is a paradise of splendid estates. In the early daysits name was ^Muddy River, and the Boston merchants pas-tured their swine and cows there in summer. A spark, snapped from a furnace in the business sectionof the city, started a fire in November, 1872, which burnedover sixty-five acres, caused thirteen deaths and a propertyloss of S70,000,000. On the outer side of Boston Harbor isNantasket Beach, the most popular of the citys seaside harbor is dotted with islands. On one little islet near theentrance, knownas Nixs Mate,there used to
What to see in America . hese is Brookline,which is a paradise of splendid estates. In the early daysits name was ^Muddy River, and the Boston merchants pas-tured their swine and cows there in summer. A spark, snapped from a furnace in the business sectionof the city, started a fire in November, 1872, which burnedover sixty-five acres, caused thirteen deaths and a propertyloss of S70,000,000. On the outer side of Boston Harbor isNantasket Beach, the most popular of the citys seaside harbor is dotted with islands. On one little islet near theentrance, knownas Nixs Mate,there used to bea gibbet espe-cially for most fa-mous episode inthe harbors his-tory is the BostonTea Party. Onthe night of De-cember 16, 1773,a hundred menbefeathered like savage warriors, and their faces smearedwith soot, boarded three vessels recently arrived from acrossthe ocean with cargoes of tea, broke open the chests, andthrew them overboard. This was done as a protest againstBritains arrogant methods of The Shore at Marblehead 38 What to See in America One of the old towns which has been annexed to Boston isRoxbury, whose first minister was John EHot, the Apostleof the Indians. He learned their language and translatedthe Bible into their tongue. In West Roxbury was thefamous communistic Brook Farm, where some of the mostnotable men and women in America once lived and culti-vated the land and their brains. People used to laugh atthe spectacle of rustic philosophers hoeing out wisdom andpotatoes at the same time, and the neighbors said thatthe Brook Farmers once raised 500 tufts of burdock, mistak-ing them for cabbages. Next to Plymouth the oldest place in New England isSalem, the Witch City. It was begun in 1626 by a littleband of English farmers and fishermen, who moved to thespot from the bleak shores of Cape Ann. Two years laterthey were joined by Captain John Endicott and a hundredadventurers from England. For a long time Salem was agreat seaport and a cen
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