. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. t Roads, a convenient anchorage forvessels entering the harbor, before going up totheir dock. It was to this point that the Britishretreated when they evacuated Boston and theyhere spent some two weeks in rearranging andstowing the furniture of the many loyalists whowere hastily taken on board. They then sailedfrom here to Halifax. Directly ahead we see a narrow passage forwhich we are shaping our course. On the right isPeddocks Island surmounted by earthworks andon the
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. t Roads, a convenient anchorage forvessels entering the harbor, before going up totheir dock. It was to this point that the Britishretreated when they evacuated Boston and theyhere spent some two weeks in rearranging andstowing the furniture of the many loyalists whowere hastily taken on board. They then sailedfrom here to Halifax. Directly ahead we see a narrow passage forwhich we are shaping our course. On the right isPeddocks Island surmounted by earthworks andon the left is Pemberton Point with its large the left of this one may look out the mainentrance of the harbor, supported on the left byBoston Light, the first light-house to be built on theAtlantic seaboard. Still farther to the left andalmost passed by this time, may be seen BugLight, a low white house standing on stilts in thewater. At low tide a long gravelly reef reachesfrom thisjight to thei,Great Brewster Island tothe left of Boston Light, the highest to be Calf Island to the left of the Great Brewster. JOHN HARVARD S GI{A\E, (llAKLK>i( t\V.\ may be seen the summer home of the retired actressJulia Arthur, now Mrs. B. P. Cheney. The narrow strait between Pemberton Pointand Peddocks Island is known as Hull Gut, and atcertain stages of the tide the water rushes throughhere at terrific speed. Pemberton Point wasformerly called Windmill Point as here were lo-cated extensive salt-works, the salt water beingpumped into the vats by windmills. A fort withits huge disappearing guns may be seen beyondPemberton Point, and further beyond this is thehigh yellow tower from which the arrival of craftentering the harbor is telegraphed to the city. The regular steamers to Nantasket swing aroundthis point and make a landing for connection withthe electric trains which run around the shore reach-ing Nantasket at practically the same time thatthe boat arrives. Visitors to Nanta
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