. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. CHAPTER I. THE GATEWAY OF OLD MIDDLESEX. A sup of New Englands Aire is better than a whole draught of OldEnglands Ale. THE charming belt of country around Boston is full of in-terest to Americans. It is diversified with every featurethat can make a landscape attractive. Town clasps hands withtown until the girdle is complete where Nahant and :Nantasketsit with their feet in the Atlantic. The whole region may becompared to one vast park, where nature has wrought in savagegrandeur what art has subdued into a series of delightfulpictures. No one portio
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. CHAPTER I. THE GATEWAY OF OLD MIDDLESEX. A sup of New Englands Aire is better than a whole draught of OldEnglands Ale. THE charming belt of country around Boston is full of in-terest to Americans. It is diversified with every featurethat can make a landscape attractive. Town clasps hands withtown until the girdle is complete where Nahant and :Nantasketsit with their feet in the Atlantic. The whole region may becompared to one vast park, where nature has wrought in savagegrandeur what art has subdued into a series of delightfulpictures. No one portion of the zone may claim is the same shifting panorama visible from every ruggedheight that never fails to delight soul and sense. We canlikeii Miese suburban abodes to nothing but a string of preciousgems flung around the neck of Old Boston. Nor is this all. Whoever cherishes the memory of brave(ieeds — and who does not] — will find here the-arena in whichthe colonial stripling suddenly sprang erect, and planted a blowf
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