. New England; a human interest geographical reader. brary started in the early morning by a spark snapped from afurnace in the business section. The horses of the firedepartment were sick with a distemper, which was agreat handicap to the departments efiiciency. Sixty-five acres were burned over, nearly eight hundredbuildings were destroyed, there were thirteen deaths,and the property loss was seventy million dollars. Boston, Old and New n The city is an almost ideal seaport. It lies wellback in a bay that is protected from the ocean stormsby two long slender arms of the land, one reachingsou
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. brary started in the early morning by a spark snapped from afurnace in the business section. The horses of the firedepartment were sick with a distemper, which was agreat handicap to the departments efiiciency. Sixty-five acres were burned over, nearly eight hundredbuildings were destroyed, there were thirteen deaths,and the property loss was seventy million dollars. Boston, Old and New n The city is an almost ideal seaport. It lies wellback in a bay that is protected from the ocean stormsby two long slender arms of the land, one reachingsouthward and the other northward, with a deepchannel between. On the outer side of the northward-reaching peninsula is Nantasket Beach, the mostpopular of Bostons seashore resorts. When the whitemen came it was the playground of the savages. TheIndians would erect a pole on the beach, and hang itwith beaver skins; and the swarthy braves ran racesand played football to win these trophies. Their wildshouts could be heard above the roar of the Boston Light. Here was erected in 1716 the first Americanlighthouse. The present tower was built in 1783 The harbor is dotted with islands. One Uttle islandnear the entrance is known as Nixs Mate, and on it y8 New England there used to be a gibbet especially for pirates. Most ofthem, after they had been hung, were buried on theisland in the sand, but whenever a ringleader paid thepenalty of his villainy here, he was left hanging inirons from the gibbet, so that sailors coming into portwould see the skeleton and take warning. The best-known episode in the harbors historyis that of the Boston Tea Party. The British govern-ment was trying to force the Americans to pay taxeson the tea that was imported. But the Americansinsisted that they could not be taxed without theirconsent. Many of them stopped drinking the foreigntea, and they would not use any kind of goods manu-factured in Britain on which a tax was dressed in Ame
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