Sketch of the Cities of Boston and Cambridge (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sketch of the Cities of Boston and Cambridge Boston, in Suffolk County, the capital of the State of Massachusetts, and the second city in commerce, wealth, banking capital and valuation, in the United States of North America. It lies at the bottom of Massachusetts Bay, and is one of many pear-shaped peninsulas formerly attached to the mainland only by narrow marshy necks, which fringed the shores of the Bay. The Charles River, once more than double its present width, divides it from the similar promontory of Charlestown (the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill), on the other side of which the Mystic River, uniting.with the Charles, flows into the harbor. The latest determination gives the latitude of Boston, 42 2' 27.6" north, and 5 59' 18" east longitude from Washington, and 7l 3' 30" west from Greenwich. When it is noon in Boston it is four o clock forty-four minutes and fourteen seconds at Greenwich, and thirty-six minutes past eleven at Washington, which is distant by railroad four hundred and fifty miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.