. Boston, Mass. A brief description of ye ancient town, and also of the best way to get there. Together with an account of the foundation of the publick schools. Illustrated with artiftick engravings . ed with iflands, and en-livened by boats and veffels, give variety to therich and delightful profpect. The Market Place, in which Faneuil Hall is fitu-ated, is fupplied with all kinds of provifions whichthe country affords. The fifh market in particular,by the bounteous fupplies of the ocean and rivers,not only furnifhes the rich with the rareft produc-tions, but often provides the poor with a c
. Boston, Mass. A brief description of ye ancient town, and also of the best way to get there. Together with an account of the foundation of the publick schools. Illustrated with artiftick engravings . ed with iflands, and en-livened by boats and veffels, give variety to therich and delightful profpect. The Market Place, in which Faneuil Hall is fitu-ated, is fupplied with all kinds of provifions whichthe country affords. The fifh market in particular,by the bounteous fupplies of the ocean and rivers,not only furnifhes the rich with the rareft produc-tions, but often provides the poor with a cheap andgrateful repaft. Bofton Harbour is formed by PointAlderton on the fouth, and by Nahant Point on thenorth. The harbour is capacious enough for 500veffels to ride at anchor in good depth of water;whilft the entrance is fo narrow as fcarcely to admittwo fhips abreaft. It is variegated with aboutforty iflands, of which fifteen only can be properlycalled fo; the others being fmall rocks or banks ofland, flightly covered with verdure. Thefe iflandsafford excellent pafturage, hay, and grain, and areagreeable places of refort in fummer to parties ofpleafure. Fort Independence, on Caftle Ifland,. Burning of Charleftown. formerly Caftle William, about three miles eaft ofBofton, is a very ftrong fortrefs, lately built by theGovernment of the United States, at a great ex-penfe, and defends Bofton Harbour. It is a regular,ftrong, enclofed work; the ramparts of ftone andbrick, with a magazine, fortrefs, barracks, andother buildings; commenced in the year 1800, andwere completed in 1803. The view of the town, as it is approached fromthe fea, is truly beautiful and picturefque. It liesin a circular and pleafingly irregular form roundthe harbour, and ornamented with fpires, abovewhich the Monument of Beacon Hill rifes, whichis now, however, overtopped by the new StateHoufe. On the bafe of the Monument are in-fcriptions, commemorating some of the moftremarkable events of the late war. Be
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