. King's handbook of Boston harbor. an a hope for the Continentalarray. A rude fortification was erected on the hill, during the Revolution, to AT/NGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 125 defend the entrance by Shirley Gut. During the War of 1812 the frigateConstitution once stole out to sea through this narrow strait, escaping theBritish blockaders that were hovering off the harbor. About the year 1830 Sturgis & Parker established the salt-business here,and erected several large buildings. To this the contemporary poet-laureateof the lower harbor thus delicately alludes : — Point Shirley, to forget
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. an a hope for the Continentalarray. A rude fortification was erected on the hill, during the Revolution, to AT/NGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 125 defend the entrance by Shirley Gut. During the War of 1812 the frigateConstitution once stole out to sea through this narrow strait, escaping theBritish blockaders that were hovering off the harbor. About the year 1830 Sturgis & Parker established the salt-business here,and erected several large buildings. To this the contemporary poet-laureateof the lower harbor thus delicately alludes : — Point Shirley, to forget, oh muse,Indeed would be a fault,Which Sturgis never would excuse,Who manufactures salt. In subsequent years the Point was the seat of the extensive works of the Revere Copper Company,main, with their tall brickabove are queer old houses,evident remains of old-time J i& ft whose abandoned buildings still re-chimneys. On the little moundrickety and spider-haunted, but withdignity. Perhaps thesethe villas of theincial era,. A Lobsterrmans Cabin, Point Shirley. of the Hancocks and their friends,where the fair Puritan ladies dis-cussed the fashions of the time of King GeorgeII., and watched the Provincial fleets sailing out against Louisburg, orQuebec, or the Spanish Main, with their husbands and sweethearts onboard. The poor old houses are disconsolate enough now, looking downon the industrial Pompeii of the copper-works, and out on the calm bluewaters beyond, monuments of pathetic dilapidation. Harborward fromthe gloomy and silent buildings of the Revere Copper Company is a rudecolony of fishermen, most of whom, as the numerous nets bear witness,are engaged in the pursuit of lobsters. In and about their cabins aremany very quaint and interesting scenes, connected with the lives andavocations of the toilers of the sea. Several of their homes and out-buildings are the cabins and upper works of defunct steamships which havebeen burnt on Apple Island; and the state-room which shel
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