Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . y, on Pleasant Street, is The Providence Railroad Depot, a fine brickstructure, and rather striking in its architecture. Theinterior arrangements are good, and unusually road is forty-three miles in length, and, joined withthe Stonington Line, which is properly a continuationof it, connects Boston with Long Island Sound. Thebranch roads uniting with this are the Dedham, Stough-ton, Taunton, and Attleboro roads. Cars leave the depot in Boston for Providence daily,stopping at Roxbury, which is two miles from the city,Jamaic
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . y, on Pleasant Street, is The Providence Railroad Depot, a fine brickstructure, and rather striking in its architecture. Theinterior arrangements are good, and unusually road is forty-three miles in length, and, joined withthe Stonington Line, which is properly a continuationof it, connects Boston with Long Island Sound. Thebranch roads uniting with this are the Dedham, Stough-ton, Taunton, and Attleboro roads. Cars leave the depot in Boston for Providence daily,stopping at Roxbury, which is two miles from the city,Jamaica Plain, three and a half miles. Canton, fourteen miles from Boston, is a beautifully- «6 BOSTON AM) VICINITY. tliversified and picturesque town, watered by the NeponsetKiver, wliicli, with the numerous ponds in its vicinity,fjives it an extensive water power. Tlic i-ailroad bridjrewhich crosses tin. river at Canton is one of the finestpieces of nia-onry in the country. It is of hewn <rranite,is six hundred and twelve feet lung, and elevated sixty-. three feet above the foundation, resting on six arches, witha succession of arches on top. Its cost exceeded ninetythousand dollars. Sharon, seventeen and a half miles from Boston, occu-pies the highest land between Boston and Providence. KOSTON AN1> VHIXITY. 87 Its natural scenery is exceedingly line. Maslmpoag Poml,a beautiful sheet of wjiter over a mile in length, rests upona bed of iron ore. During the Ioav stages of the water,the ore is extracted by machines made lor the purj) and plciisure parties frequent this pond in thesummer season. Mansfield is twenty-ibur miles, Attleboro thirty-uiiemiles, Pawtucket thirty-nine miles, and Providence Ibrly-three and a half miles from Boston.
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