. King's handbook of Boston harbor. the Point. Near the verge is a little whitefarm-house, sheltered on two sides by the hills, and whose narrow fields liefull open to the breath of the sea, so that one would think that the vegeta-bles grown there would need no salting. The upper part of the great rounding hill is a flowery pasture of several KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 49 .11 res, peopled by birds and butterflies, and terminating toward the sea ina sharp and amazing cliff, far below which the waves beat against impass-able barriers. Here is a grand view-point, — solitary, far-secluded fr
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. the Point. Near the verge is a little whitefarm-house, sheltered on two sides by the hills, and whose narrow fields liefull open to the breath of the sea, so that one would think that the vegeta-bles grown there would need no salting. The upper part of the great rounding hill is a flowery pasture of several KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 49 .11 res, peopled by birds and butterflies, and terminating toward the sea ina sharp and amazing cliff, far below which the waves beat against impass-able barriers. Here is a grand view-point, — solitary, far-secluded from thedapper summer-cottages, — where the contemplative man is able To musen in his philosophic,Sole withouten companie. It is an enchanted scene, where the narrow-laned harbor opens to the west-ward, diversified by islands great and small, gray forts, white light-houses,and b 1 uff sgnawed awayby the waves;or where thesilvery curveof NantasketBeach sweepsaway to thesouth, fringedby a snowyline of surf;or where, tothe eastward,. the vast open sea stretches intodim blue leagues, holding here andthere in its immensity the slow-moving vessels bound on many dis-tant errands, and flecked with shad-From the edge of the cliff one may comprehend The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls. Like the promontory of Palinurus, Point Allerton is respectfully regardedas the memorial of an ancient worthy; and the appellation, perpetuatingthe memory of a man of the greatest commercial enterprise in those earlytimes, is most fitly applied. Gaudet cognomine terras Thus spake oneof the famous orators of New England; and he said well, for Isaac Aller- ows of passing phrase,— 50 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR.
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