. The New England magazine . once it hasput Its hand to the plough, — has vouch-safed all this to the weary toilers of theadjacent city that they may recuperatebody and mind, form higher ideals bycontact with the supreme dignity of nat-ures solitudes, and make possible betterperformance day by day. A noble na-tural park, such as the Free Public Forestof Lynn, is a distinct moral force in anycommunity. It is not more than possiblethat in the proximity of this wooded do-main on the one hand, and of the widereaches of the vast tidal sea on the other,may be found some of the causes of theextraordi
. The New England magazine . once it hasput Its hand to the plough, — has vouch-safed all this to the weary toilers of theadjacent city that they may recuperatebody and mind, form higher ideals bycontact with the supreme dignity of nat-ures solitudes, and make possible betterperformance day by day. A noble na-tural park, such as the Free Public Forestof Lynn, is a distinct moral force in anycommunity. It is not more than possiblethat in the proximity of this wooded do-main on the one hand, and of the widereaches of the vast tidal sea on the other,may be found some of the causes of theextraordinary vigor and independence ofthought which have so strongly markedLynn from the first? The far-sighted public spirit with whichthe reservation of this territory has beensecured is beyond praise. A few yearsago a board of seven trustees was createdto hold in trust for the people of Lynnsuch wild land as should be conveyedto them. This land, of limited extent, wasknown as the Free Public Forest. Until 510 THE CITY OF 1706, all the woodland included in theterritory of old Lynn was held in com-mon. In that year it was divided amongthe householders of the town, accordingto their individual holdings of improvedor enclosed land. This woodland in-cluded a large area of rough, rocky, butpicturesquely beautiful country amongthe hills behind the city, land unfittedfor cultivation, or residential or businessuse, but a natural habitat for a countlessvariety of wild plants and trees, as wellas a natural storage place for had endowed it with a lavishnessthat man could not rival. Lovers ofnature had long desired to have this ter-ritory secured to public use and the re-quirements of the citys water supplygave a practical support to their 1888 the city accepted the state parkact of 1882, with the power of condem-nation thereto attached, and a park com-mission was created. Liberal citizensinterested in the project pledged twentythousand dollars, and the city appr
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