. King's handbook of Boston harbor. , whose seeds werebrought from France. Thoreaunoted these very trees, and rejoiced :At sight of this cosmopolite, — this Capt. Cook among plants, — Carried in bal- Hull Burying-Ground and Point Allerton. last all over the world, I felt as if I were on the highway of nations. Say, rather, this Viking, king of the bays, forit is not an innocent plant: it suggests, not merely commerce, but its attend-ant vices, as if its fibres were the stuff of which pirates spin their the road reaches its highest point, a noble sea-view opens out,with the neighbor
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. , whose seeds werebrought from France. Thoreaunoted these very trees, and rejoiced :At sight of this cosmopolite, — this Capt. Cook among plants, — Carried in bal- Hull Burying-Ground and Point Allerton. last all over the world, I felt as if I were on the highway of nations. Say, rather, this Viking, king of the bays, forit is not an innocent plant: it suggests, not merely commerce, but its attend-ant vices, as if its fibres were the stuff of which pirates spin their the road reaches its highest point, a noble sea-view opens out,with the neighboring rocky islets off-shore, and beyond a weltering blueexpanse, which stretches eastward, without a break, to the remote Iberiancoasts of Pontevedra and Cape Finisterre, A glimpse of blue immensity,A little strip of sea. On the south-east slope of Telegraph Hill is the old graveyard of thevillage, recognizable from miles away by its luxuriant trees. The oldestmonument bears the date of 1708. Here are the graves of many Cushings. 42 KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. and Lorings, and memorial slabs to men who were buried at sea or in dis-tant ports. There were many very ancient monuments here; but the localtradition says that they were carried down to the waterside during the timethe French army laid at Hull, and utilized as wash-boards. The soldiersprobably used them as the riverside blanchisseuses of Paris still do the sidesof their barges and quays, by beating the wet clothes against them. In this locality, where so many of the actors in the long history of Hullhave gone to rest, let us contemplate a few episodes in the history of thehamlet. We have a fair glimpse of the coasts between Cape Ann and Cohasset,before the pestilence nearly annihilated the aborigines, in Capt. JohnSmiths rather optimistic description of his voyage in 1614: And thenthe country of the Massachusits which is the paradise of all those parts:for here are many lies all planted with corne; groves, mulb
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