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Image from page 48 of “King’s handbook of Boston harbor” (1882)
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Title: King’s handbook of Boston harbor
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897 King, Moses, 1853-1909 Copeland, Charles, 1858-1929, ill
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR 47 Point OTerton. STONY BEACH.— POINT ALLERTON. — THE KADOSH. —NOBLE VIEWS. — THE SEA-KINGS FATE. XTENDING from the foot of Telegraph Hill andVinings pretty cottage, to Point Allerton, is thenarrow isthmus of Stony Beach, more than half amile long, making several graceful curves betweeni the harbor and Nantasket Roads, and giving scantroom for the railway and highway between the twostrands. Its title is perfectly descriptive; and theweedy rocks on the outer shore exhale the pungentand fascinating odors of the sea, with which they have been for so manycenturies saturated. All along these beaches the men of Cohasset maketheir patrols, after stormy weather, in search of sea-moss. The virtues ofkelp were once much extolled hereabouts, and the old hut where Jack Haydenbrewed medicines from it is still pointed out. Thoreau says that he foundthe people of Hull also making potash, by burning the stems of kelp, andboiling the ashes. On the harbor-side i
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