The port book of Boston; . The First Steamer Plying Boston Harbor Town House (now the Old State House) ; nextseems to be the old Brattle Street Church ; and thencomes Faneuil Hall. The Town Dock ran up con-siderably closer to the Cradle of Liberty thanReveres picture would indicate. The great pier or dock, running^ far out into theharbor, upon which the boat-loads of British soldiersfrom the fleet are landing, is Long- Wharf. Justbehind the row of houses lining the wharf you see alittle offshoot, a sort of appendix to the main was Minotts T, the predecessor of the presentT wharf. Thi
The port book of Boston; . The First Steamer Plying Boston Harbor Town House (now the Old State House) ; nextseems to be the old Brattle Street Church ; and thencomes Faneuil Hall. The Town Dock ran up con-siderably closer to the Cradle of Liberty thanReveres picture would indicate. The great pier or dock, running^ far out into theharbor, upon which the boat-loads of British soldiersfrom the fleet are landing, is Long- Wharf. Justbehind the row of houses lining the wharf you see alittle offshoot, a sort of appendix to the main was Minotts T, the predecessor of the presentT wharf. This T, in the picture, shows the pointwhere the Atlantic Avenue water-front of to-daymarks the limit of the harbor. The cove behind theT was long since filled and built upon with ware-houses and shops. The greater portion of the Long 10 OF BOSTON. Mammoth Cabin Steamer Camden Wharf of the engraving is now State Street. Avery different idea of the water-front and harbor isto be g-ained from the View of Boston in 1848, onpage 8. Doubtless it is more accurate, but it is lessinteresting. Bunker Hill Monument, at the extremeright, and the dome of the State House are ofunmistakable identity. Notable in this picture arethe great gable-ended warehouses along the docks,presumably stuffed with the assets of East Indiamerchants, who flourished in that day. Yet from acomparison of the two prints, ones notion of thedevelopment of the port during a period of eightyyears gains emphasis. The transition from the ageof sails to that of steam is also apparent, and onefeels that the draftsman did his best to picture thingscorrectly. The Norseman, Thorwald, is said to have discovered 11 THE PORT BOOK Castle Island and Fort Independence,Marine Park, South Boston Boston Harbor, in the year 1003. Eig-ht hundredand seven years after that episode a stea
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