Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . tiful spot for parties of pleasure, whoresort thither, in summer, in large numbers, from the neigh-boring towns and cities. He selected its fanciful name, IIOSTUX AND VICINITY. 259 Siloum reversed, from the health-giviug property of itst!ea-baths, to be enjoyed in the grottos and recesses of itsshores. Money has been profusely expended in mason,shell, and pebble work, statuary, fountains, swings, andother contrivances for amusement; and the crowd thatresort there on pleasant days proves it to have been welllaid out. The grounds comprise
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . tiful spot for parties of pleasure, whoresort thither, in summer, in large numbers, from the neigh-boring towns and cities. He selected its fanciful name, IIOSTUX AND VICINITY. 259 Siloum reversed, from the health-giviug property of itst!ea-baths, to be enjoyed in the grottos and recesses of itsshores. Money has been profusely expended in mason,shell, and pebble work, statuary, fountains, swings, andother contrivances for amusement; and the crowd thatresort there on pleasant days proves it to have been welllaid out. The grounds comprise about twenty acres, andborder several hundred feet upon the sea. They com-mand a superb view of P^gg Rock, Little Nahant, Lynn,Swampscott, and Phillips Beach ; and of a summer noon-day, as the eye ranges over the gleaming waters to thegraceful headlands peering in the distance, it takes in , which, once enjoyed, will ever be remembeied :ht. CHAPTER XXIX. nOSTOM HARBOR. ISLANDS. FARM SCHOOL. ALMS-HOUSE. FORT INDKPKNDENCE. FOHT The readiest way of regaining the city is to takepassage on board a steamer lying at tlie wharf. Thetrip occupies only about forty minutes, and is one of260 BOSTON AXl) VICINITY. 261 the most delightful that can be imagined. Shooting offfrom the rocky peninsula, and leaving beliind Nahant,^\llh its enchanting ;ociations, we have time, as the goes puffing along, to see the Islands in BostonHarbor ; and il there are natural beauties, romantic ele-vations, or silent and wild retreats in the vicinity of Bos-ton, they are in the hai-bor. These islands are graduallywearing away; and where; large herds of cattle once fed,the ocean now rolls its angry billows, and lashes with auoverwhchning surge the remains of earth. We can see the Lower Light, 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
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