Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . three feet above the foundation, resting on six arches, witha succession of arches on top. Its cost exceeded ninetythousand dollars. Sharon, seventeen and a half miles from Boston, occu-pies the highest land between Boston and Providence. PUBLIC LIBRARY. 83 Its natural scenery is exceedingly fine. Mashapoag Pond,a beautiful sheet of water over a mile in length, rests upona bed of iron ore. During the low stages of the water,the ore is extracted by machines made for the and pleasure parties frequent this pond in thesumme
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . three feet above the foundation, resting on six arches, witha succession of arches on top. Its cost exceeded ninetythousand dollars. Sharon, seventeen and a half miles from Boston, occu-pies the highest land between Boston and Providence. PUBLIC LIBRARY. 83 Its natural scenery is exceedingly fine. Mashapoag Pond,a beautiful sheet of water over a mile in length, rests upona bed of iron ore. During the low stages of the water,the ore is extracted by machines made for the and pleasure parties frequent this pond in thesummer season. Mansfield is twenty-four miles, Attleboro thirty-onemiles, Pawtucket thirty-nine miles, and Providence forty-three and a half miles from The Public Library building of the city of Bostonis situated on Boylston Street, opposite the Common, 84 BOSTON SIGHTS (although the library itself temporarily reposes in MasonStreet, until the neAV building is quite ready for its recep-tion.) The building was designed by Mr. Charles Kirby,and is eighty-two feet in front, one hundred and twenty-eight feet deep, and two stories in height, besides the base-ment. The lower or basement story is situated below thelevel of the sidewalk. The first story of the building contains the large hallof entrance, which ojDens directly into the room for distri-bution, which occupies the central part of the story. Itis intended to serve also as a conversation room. Thisroom is connected with a large hall in the rear of thebuilding, having a gallery and twenty alcoves, calculatedto contain about forty thousand of the books most fre-quently demanded for use. On the front of the building,and entered only from the room of delivery, are two read-ing rooms,
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