Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . oxes is so arrangedthat in every part of the house a full view is had of thestage. The pit is unusually large, and although removedfor many years, has been reinstated, and now containsabout five hundred seats. The National has been a verypopular theatre, and in the hands of a good manager isalways profitable. The Boston and Lowell Depot, at the foot ofLowell Street, is a plain brick building, with no preten-sions to architectural elegance. The length of the roadproper is twenty-six miles. The branch road connectingis the Woburn Branch.
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . oxes is so arrangedthat in every part of the house a full view is had of thestage. The pit is unusually large, and although removedfor many years, has been reinstated, and now containsabout five hundred seats. The National has been a verypopular theatre, and in the hands of a good manager isalways profitable. The Boston and Lowell Depot, at the foot ofLowell Street, is a plain brick building, with no preten-sions to architectural elegance. The length of the roadproper is twenty-six miles. The branch road connectingis the Woburn Branch. The towns passed through on theroad to Lowell are, — East Cambridge, a flourishing place, with many exten-sive manufactories, of which the glass works are the mostimportant. • Somerville, three miles * 114 BOSTON SIGHTS. Medford, five miles from Boston, is at the head of navi-gation on the Mystic River, and noted for its ship building. Woburn, ten miles, has a varied and pleasing aspect,and contains some beautiful farms. Horn Pond, in this. town, is a delightful sheet of water, surrounded by ever-greens, and is so remarkable for its rural beauties as toattract many visitors from a distance. Wilmington is fifteen miles, Billerica nineteen miles,Billerica Mills twenty-two miles, and Lowell twenty-sixmiles from Boston. The Eastern Railroad Depot, which is built of EASTERN RAILROAD DEPOT. 115 wood, stands on Cause way Street, at the foot of Friendand Canal Streets. The length of the road to Ports-mouth is fifty-six miles, or to Portland one hundred and
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