. King's handbook of Boston harbor. of an echo once more. Calf Island is just north of the Great Brewster, and was ancientlyknown as the North Brewster. It covers ten acres, and has several smallhouses and a lonely grave. Nature has not been lavish here; but her kind-lier touch appears in a pretty grove of wild cherry-trees, and artists find 226 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. here a great variety of choice subjects for studies. Among the ruggedledges of basalt which front the surf, there are several pretty bits of beachwhere landing may be made. In years not long past, sometimes, of a pleas-
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. of an echo once more. Calf Island is just north of the Great Brewster, and was ancientlyknown as the North Brewster. It covers ten acres, and has several smallhouses and a lonely grave. Nature has not been lavish here; but her kind-lier touch appears in a pretty grove of wild cherry-trees, and artists find 226 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. here a great variety of choice subjects for studies. Among the ruggedledges of basalt which front the surf, there are several pretty bits of beachwhere landing may be made. In years not long past, sometimes, of a pleas-ant summer Sunday, scores of boats, dories, and yachts would make a rushfrom the city to this sequestered spot, and their crews would congregate ina dense circular crowd on the greensward. From the general scatteringapparent if the harbor-police boat approached, it was evident that thesesummer-tourists were not on the best terms with the law; and the generalbelief is, that the art of pugilism had here a favored shrine. A half-dozen. Lobstermans House, Calf Island. lobstermen and their families now live on the island, under the paternal andeccentric sway of Captain Turner. About a hundred feet northward, and accessible hence at low tide, risesthe barren rock of Little Calf Island, fringed with weedy ledges. To thenorth is the narrow strait of Hypocrite Passage, through which small boatsfrequently run. Green Island is the most northerly of the group, and has a small areaof grassy earth in a great bowl of rock, and a long and gravelly South Samuel Choate, mariner, had reached his fiftieth year, in 1845, nesettled on this islet, hardly larger than a vessels deck, and built a rude hut,where he lived for twenty years, subsisting mainly on fish and the famous storm of 1851, this maritime hermit was taken off bya pilot-boat, for his fast-anchored deck was submerged by the furious tide;and in 1865, old and feeble, he was removed to a charitable home. KINGS HAND
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