Tarry at home travels . what is well-nigh a circle of fifty milesradius. For Massachusetts Bay, which takes in asegment of perhaps a quarter of this circle, we willrely on the Othniel or Jathniel or any other ofthe steam yachts of our friends, or, in a moredemocratic fashion, we will rely on the dailyexcursion steamer. For a last resort, at least wecan invest five cents in a street-car, and go tothe South Boston public baths or to GovernorsIsland. You may cut out the list of towns already given,and go to each and all. But to try geographicalorder, what we really want to see, ranging fromnorth
Tarry at home travels . what is well-nigh a circle of fifty milesradius. For Massachusetts Bay, which takes in asegment of perhaps a quarter of this circle, we willrely on the Othniel or Jathniel or any other ofthe steam yachts of our friends, or, in a moredemocratic fashion, we will rely on the dailyexcursion steamer. For a last resort, at least wecan invest five cents in a street-car, and go tothe South Boston public baths or to GovernorsIsland. You may cut out the list of towns already given,and go to each and all. But to try geographicalorder, what we really want to see, ranging fromnorth to south, are, first, the towns north of theMerrimac to which we owe the name, now national,of the Gerrymander. Under Governor Gerrysreign in 1811 this string of towns made the neck 172 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS of the monster Gerrymander who has gobbledup so many majorities in all parts of many coun-tries between that time and this. I was pleasedto see that .the name of Gerrymander hasworked its way into English The Gerrymander. (See List of Illustrations.) In the town of Newburyport, at the mouth ofthe river, the fighting frigates of the Revolutionwere built. Think of their names, — the MarinoFaliero, the Protector, the Tyrannicide, the Oliver
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