. King's handbook of Boston harbor. Whittierand Pierpont and their brethrenwere set to appropriate was at Hingham, nearly sixty yearsago, that Richard Henry Stoddard, oneof our foremost poets, was born. Hewas a boy of boys about the harbor,enjoying the full flush of youthful life in aseaport town, and idling away many a dayabout the gray old wharves. In later yearshis tender memories of this region werefruitful in flowing and melodious verses. The little harbor has not always been asdull as it now appears. At one time there were seventysail of fishing-vessels hailing from this port; a
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. Whittierand Pierpont and their brethrenwere set to appropriate was at Hingham, nearly sixty yearsago, that Richard Henry Stoddard, oneof our foremost poets, was born. Hewas a boy of boys about the harbor,enjoying the full flush of youthful life in aseaport town, and idling away many a dayabout the gray old wharves. In later yearshis tender memories of this region werefruitful in flowing and melodious verses. The little harbor has not always been asdull as it now appears. At one time there were seventysail of fishing-vessels hailing from this port; and between1815 and 1826, a hundred and sixty-five thousand barrels ofmackerel were landed from their salty decks. For fifty years — from 1811 toabout i860 — the Rapid sailed as a packet between Hingham and Boston,making the trip on one occasion in sixty-seven minutes. In the War of 1812she was carried up Weymouth River, and covered, masts and hull, with greenbushes, so that marauding British cruisers might not find her. In 1881. So KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTOAr HARBOR. this venerable vessel was refitted, and made ready for another earliest steamboats in the bay wormed their way betimes into HinghamHarbor, — as when the puffy little Eagle came hither in 1818. Ten yearslater the Lafayette ran regularly between Boston and Hingham, twice aday, charging thirty-seven and a half cents each way, and taking two hoursfor the trip. Once this gloomy little vessel was caught in a harbor-squall,off the Castle, and put back to Hingham in great trepidation. The old saltsof the village had a mean opinion of her, and many were the obscure marinejokes of which she was the object. In 1831 a new steamboat-company wasorganized, which, it was predicted, would, in time, carry thirty thousand passengers a year; but this san-guine prophecy fell short of thepresent result by over a hundredthousand. The first boat of thisline was the Gen. Lincoln, whichhad two engines, — one to back,
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