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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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te, however; for they beartheir present name on the chart made in 1689, nearly a century earlier. Thefishermen on the adjacent islands believe that the resemblance of the rocks KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOA. 225 to tombstones, rising in somewhat regular forms from the sea, and whitenedby layers of limestone, has given reason for the name. Outside of Point Allerton, about two miles, is the dreaded HardingsLedge, which was anciently known as Conny Hasset Rock, and remains oneof the most formidable dangers of the Bay. It becomes partly bare at lowwater, and is marked by an immense bell-buoy. The new bell is forty feetabove the water, and its deep pealing is heard at a great distance. Amongthe most serious losses which this black Hardings Ledge has inflicted onour commerce was that of a great ship which was wrecked here, with serious V loss of life, some years ago. In 1876 a large iron steamshiD also \ struck on this grim — rock. Only a year or two ago the %l^S?x;^^^: ■.-— Govern-
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v& &<?.<**&. A Calf-Island Woman spearing Flounders. or Cony, laden with pig-iron and kerosene, missed stays, and struck theLedge so plumply that she went down almost instantly, leaving only herupper masts in sight. The mournful peal of the bell breaks through the gray solitudes withthat strange pathetic harmony which Lucy Larcom has thus described: — : The vessels are sunk in the mist;And hist!Through the veil of the air Throbs a sound,Like a wail of despair,That dies into stillness profound. All muffled in gray is the sea ;Not a treeSees its neighbor beside Or before;And across the blank tide,Hark 1 that sob of an echo once more. Calf Island is just north of the Great Brewster, and was ancientlyknown as the North Brewster. It covers ten acres, and has several smallhouses and a lonely grave. Nature has not been lavish here; but her kind-lier touch appears in a pretty grove of wild cherry-trees, and artists find 226 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. here a great var

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