. King's handbook of Boston harbor. e and island-dotted sectionsof the harbor, the entire extent of Nantasket Beach, and an illimitableexpanse of open sea. It is a prospect so diversified, so replete with ele- KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 61 merits of nobility, so alluring, that one never wearies of it. If PeepyMarshmallow in her easy-chair on the tires of her embroidery, or ofBirdies gossip about the last ball, she has but to lift her pretty eyes, andthe fairest panorama of sea and sky lies spread out before her. Frommany points in Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester, this stately Pal
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. e and island-dotted sectionsof the harbor, the entire extent of Nantasket Beach, and an illimitableexpanse of open sea. It is a prospect so diversified, so replete with ele- KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 61 merits of nobility, so alluring, that one never wearies of it. If PeepyMarshmallow in her easy-chair on the tires of her embroidery, or ofBirdies gossip about the last ball, she has but to lift her pretty eyes, andthe fairest panorama of sea and sky lies spread out before her. Frommany points in Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester, this stately Palace ofIndolence is seen, with its gables cutting sharply against the eastern sky. The rocky eminence whereon the hotel stands is known as Atlantic Hill,and is also occupied by several handsome cottages. Around its landwardside runs Atlantic Avenue, which was laid out in 1873, and leads from thebeach to Nantasket Lake, and thence connects with the road to south of Atlantic Hill is Centre Hill, rocky and sea-beaten, with. Crescent Beach several small hotels and cottages. Farther along stands the handsomeNew Pacific Hotel, a large modern house, on a bold cliff over the at hand on the west is Nantasket Lake (until recently known as StraitsPond), a singular lagoon two miles long, on which boat and tub races andother aquatic sports are often conducted. This rather pretty sheet of waterhas been suspected of malarial influences; and the contiguous towns spendconsiderable sums upon it yearly, in the interests of sanitation. In oldtimes it was known as Lake Galilee, and Atlantic Hill bore the name ofMount Zion; certain reverend pilgrims, returning from the Holy Land,having reported that the hills of this region bore a singular resemblanceto those of Palestine. From the craggy peninsula of Gun Rock, whose 62 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. hotel was destroyed by fire not long ago, Crescent Beach extends towardGreen Hill, and is largely occupied by the cottages of B
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