Boston illustrated; . BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 127 know by the records that it contained in the neighborhood of twelve acres in163G ; there is now not more than one acre of slioal, and there is not a vestigeof soil remaining. Point Shirley is the southern extremity of the town of Winthrop, but it prop-erly comes into any notice of Boston harbor. Its chief attraction is TaftsHotel, noted for its fish and game dinners. Indeed Point Shirley, ever since itreceived its present name, has been synonymous with good cheer. A companyof merchants purchased it in 1753, designing to establish a fishery station.
Boston illustrated; . BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 127 know by the records that it contained in the neighborhood of twelve acres in163G ; there is now not more than one acre of slioal, and there is not a vestigeof soil remaining. Point Shirley is the southern extremity of the town of Winthrop, but it prop-erly comes into any notice of Boston harbor. Its chief attraction is TaftsHotel, noted for its fish and game dinners. Indeed Point Shirley, ever since itreceived its present name, has been synonymous with good cheer. A companyof merchants purchased it in 1753, designing to establish a fishery never put the property to its intended use, but when they were ready to. Point Shirley. advertise the place, they invited Governor Shirley to go down to the spot withthem. He accepted, the party had a fine time and a fine dinner, and by per-mission of his Excellency, what had before been known as Pulling Point wasdubbed Point Shirley. The name of Pulling Point has since been transferredto another point of land on the same peninstila. We have only glanced at the harbor and a few of the numerous places of in-terest in and about it. The islands in the harbor are many, and of very pecu-liar shapes, which fact has given some of them their names, —as, for , Half Moon, and Apple Islands. Few of them are occupied, and sev-eral are uninhabitable, but the sail among and around them is in the summer-time a most agreeable change from the hot brick walls and dusty streets of thecity. If we extend our view beyond the harbor along the north shore we shallsee Revere Beach, — one of the finest on the coast, — Lynn, and the latter places
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