. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . by ten oclock twoforts were formed, one towards the city, and the othertowards Castle Island. Preparations were made for anattack by the British, and for defence by the Americans;but the weather prevented the designs of the former, andthey embarked for New York., Few visit Boston withouta view of the spot that once bristled with bayonets, or thelines of the fortifications thrown up so speedily by theContinentals. Here, also, stands the Perlcins Institute for the is open to the public on the afternoon of the first Sat-urday in
. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . by ten oclock twoforts were formed, one towards the city, and the othertowards Castle Island. Preparations were made for anattack by the British, and for defence by the Americans;but the weather prevented the designs of the former, andthey embarked for New York., Few visit Boston withouta view of the spot that once bristled with bayonets, or thelines of the fortifications thrown up so speedily by theContinentals. Here, also, stands the Perlcins Institute for the is open to the public on the afternoon of the first Sat-urday in each month; but in order to prevent a crowd,no persons are admitted without a ticket, which may be PERKINS INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND. 177 obtained gratuitously at No. 20 Bromfield Street. A lim-ited number of strangers, and persons particularly inter-ested, may be admitted any Saturday in the forenoon bypreviously applying as above for tickets. The pupils in the school are taught reading, writing,arithmetic, geography, history, natural philosophy, natural. history, and physiology. They are carefully instructed inthe theory and practice of vocal and instrumental this they are taught some handicraft work bywhich they may earn their livelihood. In this institution,for the first time in the worlds history, successful attempts 178 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. were made to break through the double walls in whichbhnd deaf mutes are immured, and to teach them a sys-tematic language for communion with their Bridgman and Oliver Caswell are living refutationsof the legal and popular maxim that those who are bornboth deaf and blind must be necessarily idiotic. They arepioneers in the way out into the light of knowledge, whichmay be followed by many others. In 1844 a supplementary institution grew out of theparent one, for the employment in handicraft work of suchblind men and women as could not readily find employ-ment at home. This establishment has been highly suc-cessf
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