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Image from page 263 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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0, and with engines of 400 horse-power.It has 70 state-rooms and 210 cabin-berths. The Cambridge is a 1500-tonvessel, built at New York in 1867, with accommodations for 450 passengers, commodious saloons and state-rooms, and an abundance of life-boats.This is also a favorite route to Moosehead Lake and other points in theMaine wilderness which are reached by the afternoon trains from Bangor,and to the mining districts east of Penobscot Bay. A steamship of this 262 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. line leaves Boston every week-day, returning from Bangor the followingclay at 11 a.m. The captains, pilots, and other officers of the fleet are allold and experienced mariners, familiar with every mile of the coast, andvigilant to a fault. The fares are very low: the rate from Boston to Rock-land and return being but .00; to Bangor and return, .00; to Moose-head Lake (Mount Kineo House) and return, .00; to Bar Harbor andreturn, .50. The wharf is reached by the East-Boston horse-cars.
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The New Steamship Penobscot, Boston and Bangor S. S. Co. The steamships of this line leave Lincolns Wharf (after Oct. 1, Fos-ters Wharf), Boston, aj 5 p.m., and move down the harbor with statelinessand speed, looking down on the many vessels, steamers, coasters, andyachts which flit in and out among the islands on every side. The courseis the same which is described on pp. 21-27, down to Deer Island, whereit turns to the north-east, and runs out through Broad Sound, into Massa-chusetts Bay, with the ragged and rocky Brewster islands and ledges onthe right, and the beaches of Winthrop and Lynn on the left. The hillsand islands, villages and summer-hotels, of the North Shore are in sight,—Nahant and Swampscott, Manchester and Magnolia; and the tall stonelight-houses on Thachers Island, off the end of Cape Ann, are passed,close at hand, before the summer sunset comes. The course is laid thenceacross the Gulf of Maine to Monhegan, whose light cheers the darkness ofearly morning. At dawn
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