. King's handbook of Boston harbor. e is converted into products of value, by the aid of ingenuity andindustry. Spectacle Island covers about sixty acres, its graceful trim bluffs beingof about equal size. Sailing down the harbor, after Castle Island is passed,the bold headland of Spectacle is seen on the right, with a large barn onits summit, as the only sign of human occupancy. From other points appearthe rendering-works and their chimneys, low down, near the Bridge of theNose. As early as the year 1666 Spectacle Island (even then so-called) was, for KINGS HANDBOOK OK BOSTON HARBOR. 157 the
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. e is converted into products of value, by the aid of ingenuity andindustry. Spectacle Island covers about sixty acres, its graceful trim bluffs beingof about equal size. Sailing down the harbor, after Castle Island is passed,the bold headland of Spectacle is seen on the right, with a large barn onits summit, as the only sign of human occupancy. From other points appearthe rendering-works and their chimneys, low down, near the Bridge of theNose. As early as the year 1666 Spectacle Island (even then so-called) was, for KINGS HANDBOOK OK BOSTON HARBOR. 157 the most part, owned by the Bill family, who continued to hold it for nearlya century. In 16S4 Samuel Bill bought it from the son of Wampatuck,the chief of the Massachusetts Indians, who inherited his fathers authorityover the fast-diminishing tribe. The deed (now in the possession of J. Ward) begins thus: By these presents I Do fully, freely, absolutelygive, grant, sell, enfeaffe, and convey unto the said Samuel Bill his heyeres. Wreck of the Brig Grace Lothrop,Point Allerton. and Assignes forever one certainIsland, Scituate in the Massachu-setts Bay, commonly known and calledby the name of Spectacle Island. It was at the earliest days covered withtrees ; and Winthrop relates that a party of thirty men came down hereone bright January day, to cut wood. They were overtaken with wind andsnow, followed by extreme cold ; and so, the harbor freezing, except for anarrow channel, it was with great difficulty that a few found themselves ableto get as far towards home as Castle Island, while several were carriedthrough the ice to the Brewsters, where they remained two days, withneither food nor fire, suffering intensely from the extreme cold. When the tide is low, the aptness of the name Spectacle is very evident; 158 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. for then the island is seen to consist of two nearly equal parts, connectedby a narrow isthmus. Both these parts, anciently called the
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