. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ich were then at six oclockthrough the whole year. Between Arrow and Mount AuburnStreets was the estate of David Phips, thesheriff of Middlesex, colonel of the gover-nors troop and son of Lieutenant-GovernorSpencer Phips. A proscribed royalist, hishouse, some time a hospital, was afterwardsthe residence of William W^inthrop, andis now standing in fair preservation. Theestate is more interesting to the antiquaryas that of Major-General Daniel Gookin, Indian superintendentin the time of Eliot, and one of the licensers of the printing-press in 16G2, —a
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ich were then at six oclockthrough the whole year. Between Arrow and Mount AuburnStreets was the estate of David Phips, thesheriff of Middlesex, colonel of the gover-nors troop and son of Lieutenant-GovernorSpencer Phips. A proscribed royalist, hishouse, some time a hospital, was afterwardsthe residence of William W^inthrop, andis now standing in fair preservation. Theestate is more interesting to the antiquaryas that of Major-General Daniel Gookin, Indian superintendentin the time of Eliot, and one of the licensers of the printing-press in 16G2, —an ofiice supposed not to have been too arduousin his time, and not considered compatible with liberty in ourown. What this old censor would have said to many of theso-called respectable publications of to-day is not a matter ofdoubtful conjecture. It was under Gookins roof, and perhapson this very spot, that Generals Goffe and Whalley were shel-tered until the news of the Restoration and Act of Indemnitycaused them to seek another A DAY AT HARVARD. 201 The large, square wooden house at the corner of Harvard andQuincy Streets, and which stands upon the extreme limit ofthe College grounds in this direction, was the first observatoryat Harvard. It is at present the residence of Eev. Dr. Pea-body, chaplain of the College. George Phillips Bond, subse-quently professor of astronomy, was a skilful optician, whohad, from innate love of the science of the heavens, establisheda small observatory of liis own in Dorchester, where he jDur-sued his investigations. He was invited to Harvard, and, withthe aid of such instruments as could be obtained, founded inthis house what has since grown to be a credit to the Univer-sity and to America. He had the assistance of some of theprofessors, and of President Hill and others. Triangular pointswere established in connection with this position at Milton Hilland at Bunker Hill. It was the intention to have erected anobservatory on Milton Hi
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