Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . CHAPTER XX BOSTON HARBOR. ISLANDS. FARM SCHOOL. ALMS-HOUSE. FORT INDEPENDENCE. FORT The readiest way of regaining the city is to take pas-sage on board that trim little steamer, the Nelly trip occupies only about forty minutes, and is one of (190) ISLANDS IN BOSTON HARBOR. FARM SCHOOL. 191 the most delightful that can be imagined. Shooting offfrom the rocky peninsula, and leaving behind Nahant,with its enchanting associations, we have time, as the littlesteamer goes puffing along, to see the Islands in BostonHarbor
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . CHAPTER XX BOSTON HARBOR. ISLANDS. FARM SCHOOL. ALMS-HOUSE. FORT INDEPENDENCE. FORT The readiest way of regaining the city is to take pas-sage on board that trim little steamer, the Nelly trip occupies only about forty minutes, and is one of (190) ISLANDS IN BOSTON HARBOR. FARM SCHOOL. 191 the most delightful that can be imagined. Shooting offfrom the rocky peninsula, and leaving behind Nahant,with its enchanting associations, we have time, as the littlesteamer goes puffing along, to see the Islands in BostonHarbor ; and if there are natural beauties, romantic ele-vations, or silent and wild retreats in the vicinity of Bos-ton, they are in the harbor. These islands are graduallywearing away; and where large herds of cattle once fed,the ocean now rolls its angry billows, and lashes with anoverwhelming surge the last remains of earth. We can see the Lower Light, or, farther off, the smokerising from Hull. Nearer by, Georges Lsland, with com-manding Fort Warren upon it, ready to annihilate anyintruder; (this island is the key to the harbor, command-ing the ope
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