Days and ways in old Boston . ? was a questionoccasionally heard in careful circles of maidenaunts. The Charles River with its accompanyingmarshes and low lands came up to Charles came and went freely along the river beforeall that region of marsh land had been filled in andtransformed into what we call the Back Bay, aname which is sometimes puzzling to strangerswho do not understand whether we are referringto land or water. Bostons first mayor, the fatherof Wendell Phillips, lived in this old localityaround Beacon Hill, in a house which is stillstanding at the corner of Chestnut
Days and ways in old Boston . ? was a questionoccasionally heard in careful circles of maidenaunts. The Charles River with its accompanyingmarshes and low lands came up to Charles came and went freely along the river beforeall that region of marsh land had been filled in andtransformed into what we call the Back Bay, aname which is sometimes puzzling to strangerswho do not understand whether we are referringto land or water. Bostons first mayor, the fatherof Wendell Phillips, lived in this old localityaround Beacon Hill, in a house which is stillstanding at the corner of Chestnut and WalnutStreets. I can remember when the summit ofBeacon Hill ran up behind the State House andwas about even with the base of the dome; butthis hill was afterwards gradeddown about eighty feet, bringingit to its present level, and thematerial used for filling in thelow lands. The year 1847 was a notableyear in Cambridge, for in thatyear, Professor Louis Agassizcame among us. Several charac-teristic anecdotes are told about. Loms In Boston and Cambridge this lovable and inspiring man and teacher. Hiswife called out to him in horror one evening, onopening her closet door, Louis! there is a snakein my shoe! and there came back the agonizedcry, Leezie, Leezie, where are the other five?It was in 1847, also, that Dr. O. W. Holmes, anative of whom Cambridge is always proud, be-
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