. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . olent persons, that puttingconfidence in their ships and sails, shall offer any injury tothe people, or contemn their Government; and they havecertain signals of alarums, which suddenly spread throughthe whole country. By these alarums is meant the can-non and beacon light upon the great natural pinnacle ofBeacon Hill. It was afterwards rebuilt with pine trees and earth. Ina short time this also became useless, and a small castlewas built, with brick walls, and had three rooms in it; adwelling room, a lodging room over it, and a gun r
. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . olent persons, that puttingconfidence in their ships and sails, shall offer any injury tothe people, or contemn their Government; and they havecertain signals of alarums, which suddenly spread throughthe whole country. By these alarums is meant the can-non and beacon light upon the great natural pinnacle ofBeacon Hill. It was afterwards rebuilt with pine trees and earth. Ina short time this also became useless, and a small castlewas built, with brick walls, and had three rooms in it; adwelling room, a lodging room over it, and a gun roomover that. The erection of this castle gave rise to thepresent name of the island. At one time there was like-wise a strong building erected on the island for the recep-tion of convicts whose crimes deserved the gallows, butby the lenity of the government had their punishment 196 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. changed. Here abode the celebrated Stephen island belongs to the United States, by which FortIndependence has been erected on the castle On the west side of the wall a tombstone stands, beneathwhich sleeps the good old Edward Pursley, whose spirit, FORT WINTHROP. VJ7 we trust, has spent nearly a century in heaven. There islikewise an ancient slab, small, of red sandstone, bearingthe name of Nathaniel Ely, but no date, and, stranger torelate, no epitaph! But turning the western flank of abattery that fronts on the channel towards the city, we be-hold a different monument, each of whose four faces bearsan inscription. Here, the name — an officer of U. Artillery; there, that the stone is erected by theofficers of his regiment; on the third side, that he fellnear the spot; and on the fourth, the distich from Collinssbeautiful ode: — Here Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, •To deck the turf that wraps his clay. Here we may observe the wonderful beauty of the har-bor, w^ith its cities on land, and its steeple-pointed ship-ping, in the midst of which sit so l
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