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| Keywords: bookid:kingshandbookofb1882swee bookidkingshandbookofb1882swee bookyear:1882 bookyear1882 bookdecade:1880 bookdecade1880 bookcentury:1800 bookcentury1800 bookauthor:sweetser__m__f___moses_foster___1848_1897 bookauthorsweetsermfmosesfoster18481897 bookauthor:king__moses__1853_1909 bookauthorkingmoses18531909 bookauthor:copeland__charles__1858_1929__ill bookauthorcopelandcharles18581929ill bookpublisher:cambridge__mass___moses_king__publisher bookpublishercambridgemassmoseskingpublisher bookcontributor:boston_college_libraries bookcontributorbostoncollegelibraries booksponsor:boston_library_consortium_member_libraries booksponsorbostonlibraryconsortiummemberlibraries bookleafnumber:220 bookleafnumber220 bookcollection:boston_college_library bookcollectionbostoncollegelibrary bookcollection:blc bookcollectionblc bookcollection:americana bookcollectionamericana photo border texture monochrome outdoor plant tree abstract bookid:kingshandbookofb1882swee bookidkingshandbookofb1882swee bookyear:1882 bookyear1882 bookdecade:1880 bookdecade1880 bookcentury:1800 bookcentury1800 bookauthor:sweetser__m__f___moses_foster___1848_1897 bookauthorsweetsermfmosesfoster18481897 bookauthor:king__moses__1853_1909 bookauthorkingmoses18531909 bookauthor:copeland__charles__1858_1929__ill bookauthorcopelandcharles18581929ill bookpublisher:cambridge__mass___moses_king__publisher bookpublishercambridgemassmoseskingpublisher bookcontributor:boston_college_libraries bookcontributorbostoncollegelibraries booksponsor:boston_library_consortium_member_libraries booksponsorbostonlibraryconsortiummemberlibraries bookleafnumber:220 bookleafnumber220 bookcollection:boston_college_library bookcollectionbostoncollegelibrary bookcollection:blc bookcollectionblc bookcollection:americana bookcollectionamericana photo border texture monochrome outdoor plant tree abstract Identifier: kingshandbookofb1882swee 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 Subjects: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: eis a great steamfog-horn, whosedismal bellow-ings warn themariners forleagues off-shore, in thickweather. The ancient minute-gun, which this more powerful appliance has superseded, rustsbv the shore. Occasionally the wharf is visited by a swarm of boarding-houserunners, in long-boats, who dash out thence upon foreign vessels enteringthe Roads, to lure the sailors to their dens in the North End. These arethe stuff that pirates are made of, — bronzed and scarred fellows, with sinis-ter faces, and language which the Puritans would have hung them for. Hence the shapely pilot-boats are seen, cruising out and in, and towardsthe capes, and in their fair symmetry meriting the eulogy given by Capt.Basil Hall, of the Royal Navy: Our ingenious friends, the Americans,have contrived a set of pilot-boats which are the delight of every sailor. . . .They are truly water-witches ; for, while they look so delicate and fragilethat one feels at first as if the most moderate breeze must brush them from Text Appearing After Image: On the Outer Brewster. 220 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. the face of the ocean, and scatter to the winds all their gay drapery, theycan and do defy, as a matter of habit and choice, the most furious gales withwhich the rugged seaboard of America is visited in February and March. The Middle Brewster is a high and rocky islet, with about ten acres- ofarable soil hidden behind its cliffs; and the groups of fishermens red-roofed houses, and the tall white summer-house of Mr. Augustus Russ,perched on the highest point, make a pleasant picture amid the surroundingdesolation. Forty years ago there were no houses on the rock; but subse-quently a small colony of fishermen settled here, by their favorite fishing-grounds, and not without occasional chances at wrecking. Here, also, thepatrician yachtsmen and other guests enjoy ease with dignity during thedog-days, and are entertained with free hospitality in the Russ villa.The snug little steamer Galatea is used by the proprietor in making tri Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: kingshandbookofb1882swee 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 Subjects: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: eis a great steamfog-horn, whosedismal bellow-ings warn themariners forleagues off-shore, in thickweather. The ancient minute-gun, which this more powerful appliance has superseded, rustsbv the shore. Occasionally the wharf is visited by a swarm of boarding-houserunners, in long-boats, who dash out thence upon foreign vessels enteringthe Roads, to lure the sailors to their dens in the North End. These arethe stuff that pirates are made of, — bronzed and scarred fellows, with sinis-ter faces, and language which the Puritans would have hung them for. Hence the shapely pilot-boats are seen, cruising out and in, and towardsthe capes, and in their fair symmetry meriting the eulogy given by Capt.Basil Hall, of the Royal Navy: Our ingenious friends, the Americans,have contrived a set of pilot-boats which are the delight of every sailor. . . .They are truly water-witches ; for, while they look so delicate and fragilethat one feels at first as if the most moderate breeze must brush them from Text Appearing After Image: On the Outer Brewster. 220 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. the face of the ocean, and scatter to the winds all their gay drapery, theycan and do defy, as a matter of habit and choice, the most furious gales withwhich the rugged seaboard of America is visited in February and March. The Middle Brewster is a high and rocky islet, with about ten acres- ofarable soil hidden behind its cliffs; and the groups of fishermens red-roofed houses, and the tall white summer-house of Mr. Augustus Russ,perched on the highest point, make a pleasant picture amid the surroundingdesolation. Forty years ago there were no houses on the rock; but subse-quently a small colony of fishermen settled here, by their favorite fishing-grounds, and not without occasional chances at wrecking. Here, also, thepatrician yachtsmen and other guests enjoy ease with dignity during thedog-days, and are entertained with free hospitality in the Russ villa.The snug little steamer Galatea is used by the proprietor in making tri Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: kingshandbookofb1882swee 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 Subjects: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: eis a great steamfog-horn, whosedismal bellow-ings warn themariners forleagues off-shore, in thickweather. The ancient minute-gun, which this more powerful appliance has superseded, rustsbv the shore. Occasionally the wharf is visited by a swarm of boarding-houserunners, in long-boats, who dash out thence upon foreign vessels enteringthe Roads, to lure the sailors to their dens in the North End. These arethe stuff that pirates are made of, — bronzed and scarred fellows, with sinis-ter faces, and language which the Puritans would have hung them for. Hence the shapely pilot-boats are seen, cruising out and in, and towardsthe capes, and in their fair symmetry meriting the eulogy given by Capt.Basil Hall, of the Royal Navy: Our ingenious friends, the Americans,have contrived a set of pilot-boats which are the delight of every sailor. . . .They are truly water-witches ; for, while they look so delicate and fragilethat one feels at first as if the most moderate breeze must brush them from Text Appearing After Image: On the Outer Brewster. 220 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. the face of the ocean, and scatter to the winds all their gay drapery, theycan and do defy, as a matter of habit and choice, the most furious gales withwhich the rugged seaboard of America is visited in February and March. The Middle Brewster is a high and rocky islet, with about ten acres- ofarable soil hidden behind its cliffs; and the groups of fishermens red-roofed houses, and the tall white summer-house of Mr. Augustus Russ,perched on the highest point, make a pleasant picture amid the surroundingdesolation. Forty years ago there were no houses on the rock; but subse-quently a small colony of fishermen settled here, by their favorite fishing-grounds, and not without occasional chances at wrecking. Here, also, thepatrician yachtsmen and other guests enjoy ease with dignity during thedog-days, and are entertained with free hospitality in the Russ villa.The snug little steamer Galatea is used by the proprietor in making tri Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: kingshandbookofb1882swee 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 Subjects: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: eis a great steamfog-horn, whosedismal bellow-ings warn themariners forleagues off-shore, in thickweather. The ancient minute-gun, which this more powerful appliance has superseded, rustsbv the shore. Occasionally the wharf is visited by a swarm of boarding-houserunners, in long-boats, who dash out thence upon foreign vessels enteringthe Roads, to lure the sailors to their dens in the North End. These arethe stuff that pirates are made of, — bronzed and scarred fellows, with sinis-ter faces, and language which the Puritans would have hung them for. Hence the shapely pilot-boats are seen, cruising out and in, and towardsthe capes, and in their fair symmetry meriting the eulogy given by Capt.Basil Hall, of the Royal Navy: Our ingenious friends, the Americans,have contrived a set of pilot-boats which are the delight of every sailor. . . .They are truly water-witches ; for, while they look so delicate and fragilethat one feels at first as if the most moderate breeze must brush them from Text Appearing After Image: On the Outer Brewster. 220 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. the face of the ocean, and scatter to the winds all their gay drapery, theycan and do defy, as a matter of habit and choice, the most furious gales withwhich the rugged seaboard of America is visited in February and March. The Middle Brewster is a high and rocky islet, with about ten acres- ofarable soil hidden behind its cliffs; and the groups of fishermens red-roofed houses, and the tall white summer-house of Mr. Augustus Russ,perched on the highest point, make a pleasant picture amid the surroundingdesolation. Forty years ago there were no houses on the rock; but subse-quently a small colony of fishermen settled here, by their favorite fishing-grounds, and not without occasional chances at wrecking. Here, also, thepatrician yachtsmen and other guests enjoy ease with dignity during thedog-days, and are entertained with free hospitality in the Russ villa.The snug little steamer Galatea is used by the proprietor in making tri Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. | ||||
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