. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ng belt of country around Boston is full of in-terest to Americans. It is diversified with every featurethat can make a landscape attractive. Town clasps hands withtown until the girdle is complete where Nahant and :Nantasketsit with their feet in the Atlantic. The whole region may becompared to one vast park, where nature has wrought in savagegrandeur what art has subdued into a series of delightfulpictures. No one portion of the zone may claim is the same shifting panorama visible from every ruggedheight that never fails to deligh
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ng belt of country around Boston is full of in-terest to Americans. It is diversified with every featurethat can make a landscape attractive. Town clasps hands withtown until the girdle is complete where Nahant and :Nantasketsit with their feet in the Atlantic. The whole region may becompared to one vast park, where nature has wrought in savagegrandeur what art has subdued into a series of delightfulpictures. No one portion of the zone may claim is the same shifting panorama visible from every ruggedheight that never fails to delight soul and sense. We canlikeii Miese suburban abodes to nothing but a string of preciousgems flung around the neck of Old Boston. Nor is this all. Whoever cherishes the memory of brave(ieeds — and who does not] — will find here the-arena in whichthe colonial stripling suddenly sprang erect, and planted a blowfull in the front of the old insular gladiator, — a blow that madehim reel with the shock to his very centre. It was here the1 A. Thum., 2 HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX. people of the Old Thirteen first acted together as one nation,and here the separate streams of their existence united in onemighty flood. The girdle is not the less interesting that itrests on the ramparts of the Revolution. It is in a great measure true that what is nearest to us weknow the least about, and that we ignorantly pass over scenesevery day, not a whit less interesting than those by which weare attracted to countries beyond the seas. An invitation to apilgrimage among the familiar objects which may be viewedfrom the city steej^les, while it may not be comparable to a tourin tlie environs of London or of Paris, will not, our word for it,fail to supply us with materials for reflection and entertain-ment. Let us beguile the way Avith glances at the interior home-life of our English ancestors, while inspecting the memorialsthey have left behind. Their habitations yet stand by thewa
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