Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ea. Since that time theBack Bay improvement, wdnch covers G80 acres, and AtlanticAvenue, which follows the old Barricado line, have adtled asmuch more to the ancient territory, so that we may safelyconsider her original limits trebled, without reference to whathas been accpiired Ijy annexation. At the time of the English .settlement liostilitics existed be-tween the Massachusetts and the eastern Indians; the natives, who seldom neg-^ lected to ])rovidefor reticai in caseof defeat, choselather to locate(hell villages fir-llier inland, atMvstic a
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ea. Since that time theBack Bay improvement, wdnch covers G80 acres, and AtlanticAvenue, which follows the old Barricado line, have adtled asmuch more to the ancient territory, so that we may safelyconsider her original limits trebled, without reference to whathas been accpiired Ijy annexation. At the time of the English .settlement liostilitics existed be-tween the Massachusetts and the eastern Indians; the natives, who seldom neg-^ lected to ])rovidefor reticai in caseof defeat, choselather to locate(hell villages fir-llier inland, atMvstic and else-\\ here. There is evi-li nee, however,lint Shawmut waseither inliabit(!il bythe Indians at a very early period, or used as a jilace of sepul-ture by them. Dr. Mather related that three hundred skull-bones had been dug up on Cotton (Pemberton) Hill when he?was a youth, and tradition long ascribed to this locality a sortof Golgotha. To support this view then; was found in , says the Xew England -Journal, a, numbei of skulls and. INDIAN \\\i.\\ INTRODUCTION. 9 larger Imraan bones hy workmen digging in a garden near liouse on Cotton Hill. These remains were considered,at the time, to Le those of the natives. Boston lias beenthoroughly withcnit luuliiig any further material toconfirm this belief. The character of the first buildings was extremely were of wood, with thatched roofs, and builtof pieces of wood placed crosswise, the interstices and outsidecovered with clay. Such was the economy of the times, thatGovernor Winthrop reproved his deputy, in 1G32, that hedid not well to bestow so mu(;h cost about wainscotting andadorning his house in the beginning of a plantation, both inregard of the public charges, and for example. The answerwas, that it was for the warmth of his house, and the chargewas little, being but clapboards nailed to the walls in the formof wainscot.* It is comparatively recent that Boston began to be a c
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