A guide-book of Boston for physicians . of the harbor cameinto the town dock at the headof the Great Cove, whereDock Square is now, and theCharles River formed a largebay to the west, afterwardsknown as Back Bay, at thepresent time filled in. The South Bay, an arm ofthe sea now cutting off SouthBoston from Boston Proper, isthe remnant of the originallarge body of water which oc-cupied this region. A ferry ofrowboats was established in1637 connecting Charlestownwith the town, and for onehundred and fifty years, untilthe first bridge was built, this was the only means of commu-nication. The ferr
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . of the harbor cameinto the town dock at the headof the Great Cove, whereDock Square is now, and theCharles River formed a largebay to the west, afterwardsknown as Back Bay, at thepresent time filled in. The South Bay, an arm ofthe sea now cutting off SouthBoston from Boston Proper, isthe remnant of the originallarge body of water which oc-cupied this region. A ferry ofrowboats was established in1637 connecting Charlestownwith the town, and for onehundred and fifty years, untilthe first bridge was built, this was the only means of commu-nication. The ferry was worth forty pounds a year to the ferry-man in those early years, and soon became a source of incometo Harvard College, being given to the college by the Wood, an educated young Englishman, who visitedthe settlement in 1630, wrote of it: Boston is two miles North-east from Roxberry: His situa-tion is very pleasant, being a Peninsula, hemd in on the South-side with the bay of Roxberry, on the North-side with Charles-. : - THE OLD SOUTH CHURCHTHE FIRST KINGS CHAPELAND BEACON HILL IN 1742
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