. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . patronage ofthe state; it was patronized by the wealthy, and enabledto obtain a permanent local habitation and a name. The terms of admission are as follows: the children of PERKINS INSTITUTE FOK THE BLIND. 179 citizens of Massachusetts not absolutely wealthy, free;others at the rate of one hundred and sixty dollars a year,which covers all expenses except for clothing. AppHcantsmust be under sixteen years of age. Adults are notreceived into the institution proper, but they can board inthe neighborhood, and be taught trades in the work
. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . patronage ofthe state; it was patronized by the wealthy, and enabledto obtain a permanent local habitation and a name. The terms of admission are as follows: the children of PERKINS INSTITUTE FOK THE BLIND. 179 citizens of Massachusetts not absolutely wealthy, free;others at the rate of one hundred and sixty dollars a year,which covers all expenses except for clothing. AppHcantsmust be under sixteen years of age. Adults are notreceived into the institution proper, but they can board inthe neighborhood, and be taught trades in the workshopgratuitously. After six months they are put upon department is a self-supporting one, but its successdepends upon the sale of goods at the depot, No. 20 Brom-lield Street. Here may be found the work of the blind— all warranted, and put at the lowest market prices;nothing being asked or expected in the way of institution is not rich, except in the confidence of thepublic and the patronage of the legislature CHAPTER XIX. NAHANT,. Stranger, if you would visit one of the most pleasant |and delightful watering places in the world, seat yourselfin the cars, be landed at Lynn, take passage in one of thestages that leave almost hourly, and when deposited in \Nahant — take your Guides word for it—you will bless .your stars, and thank him. Here, isolated from the noise, (180) j1 NAHANT. 181 and heat, and bustle of the city, you may wander by thehour on the rocks, and watch the liquid chisel of the seaat its unwearied task upon the blue and slaty substanceof the crags. Atom by atom they yield to the muscularswing of the billows, worn and polished by their frothyedges, — the toughest creation conquered by the softest,and the noise of this constant sculpture is the music ofthe world. The rocks are torn into such varieties of form, and thebeaches are so hard and smooth, that all the beauty ofwave motion and the whole gamut of ocean eloquence areoffered here
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