. The geographical development of Boston. mnumications had to bearound by the neck or else by boat across the Charles or Mystic bridges brought a great deal of business from the north to the city,and the centers of population. Candjridge, Somerville, and Charlestownincreased much more rapidly. By 1850 a second bridge had beenbuilt to Cambridge and a second to Charlestown. (See map 4.) The filling in of the Back Bay and the reclamation of the tidalflats along the Charles river has been one of the greatest improvementsof the past seventy-five years. ]3y 1850, the mill-dam and two
. The geographical development of Boston. mnumications had to bearound by the neck or else by boat across the Charles or Mystic bridges brought a great deal of business from the north to the city,and the centers of population. Candjridge, Somerville, and Charlestownincreased much more rapidly. By 1850 a second bridge had beenbuilt to Cambridge and a second to Charlestown. (See map 4.) The filling in of the Back Bay and the reclamation of the tidalflats along the Charles river has been one of the greatest improvementsof the past seventy-five years. ]3y 1850, the mill-dam and two linesof railroad had crossed Back Bay, and considerable filling had beendone on both sides of the neck. (See map 4.) Now in place of the nar-row neck is a broad land connection to the south and west, and thecity is built almost continuously across this area to Dorchester, Rox-bury, Jamaica Plain, and Brookline. (See map 5.) The tidal flatson the Cambridge side of the Charles have also been filled, and build-ing has conunenced upon O^ D ^x J I I L. Scale : lo miles = iV^ * 3. Greatt-r Boston^ iSoo. 328 THE JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY June
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