. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . entrance is the vault of the Mather family, covered by aplain oblong structure of brick, three feet high and aboutsix feet long, upon which is laid a heavy brown stoneslab, with a tablet of slate, bearing the following inscrip-tion : — BOSTON AND MAINE RAILKOAD DEPOT. 119 The Reverend Doctors Increase, Cotton, and Samuel Mather wereinterred in this vault- Increase died August 27, 1723, Feb. 13, 1727, * Jan. 27, 178-5, 79. Tjie whole is surrounded by a neat iron The Boston and Maine Eailroad Depot frontson


. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . entrance is the vault of the Mather family, covered by aplain oblong structure of brick, three feet high and aboutsix feet long, upon which is laid a heavy brown stoneslab, with a tablet of slate, bearing the following inscrip-tion : — BOSTON AND MAINE RAILKOAD DEPOT. 119 The Reverend Doctors Increase, Cotton, and Samuel Mather wereinterred in this vault- Increase died August 27, 1723, Feb. 13, 1727, * Jan. 27, 178-5, 79. Tjie whole is surrounded by a neat iron The Boston and Maine Eailroad Depot frontson Haymarket Square. It is a fine large brick building,two stories high, and is more centrally located than anyother depot in the city. The lower part is used by theCompany, but the large upper hall is occupied as a carpetwareroom by Tenny & Co. This road is seventy-four 120 BOSTON SIGHTS. miles long, and reaches to Portland. The cars passthrough Charlestown, which is distant one mile, Maiden,four miles, South Reading, ten miles, Reading, twelvemiles, Wilmington, eighteen miles, Andover, twentj-threemiles, Lawrence, twentj-six miles. North Andover, twenty-eight miles, Bradford, thirty-two miles, Haverhill, thirty-three miles, Exeter, fifty miles, Dover, sixty-eight miles,and Portland, one hundred and eleven miles* Most of the towns passed through by this road arelarge manufacturing towns, Lawrence in particular beinga second Lowell, and bearing the name of one of Massa-chusetts noblest sons, through whose influence it gained itspx^esent th


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