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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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ecraft, and happily re-moved from the throngsof politicians which eventhen filled the little cityby the Potomac, heseemed to desire seclu-sion in such a place asJeremiah describes : Aland that no man passedthrough, and where no man dwelt. Here, in the immense solitude, amid the pure spiritual air,with the solemn roll of the sea beating without cease near by, some of hisnoblest thoughts were conceived, and prepared for such utterance as wouldelectrify the nation. It is a tradition in Boston, that he thought out hiscelebrated apostrophe to the veterans of Bunker Hill while fishing in Massa-chusetts Bay, and first delivered it to a gigantic codfish which he just thendrew from the waves. In the annals of oratory, Nantasket should holdas honorable a place as that Greek beach whence Demosthenes flung hisnoble sentences into the senseless storm. On this famous strip of coast, from Point Allerton to the Jerusalem Road,there are many objects of interest, for visitors of different temperaments,
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A Storm at Minots Ledge. 66 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. and many scenes in varying moods of sea and sky, which arouse emotionsof diverse kinds. Sir Arthur Helps well says that the traveller will oftenfind an exquisite delight in what the guide-books pass by with indifference;and nowhere is the remark so applicable as in a place like this, which is vis-ited for any purpose rather than the pursuit of knowledge. As many as three-fourths of the excursionists land at the pier in WeirRiver, or alight at the adjacent railway-station, and seek their recreation onthe southern mile of the beach, between Atlantic Hill and Sagamore Hill;and it is on this stretch that the largest amount of human interest may befound. The emotions of Peter Peregrine, forty years ago, were so similar tothose of myriads of other visitors, that they may well be reported here:The Nantasket beach is the most beautiful I ever saw. It sweeps roundin a majestic curve, which, if it were continued so as to complete the
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