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Identifier: kingshandbookofb1882swee (find matches)
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
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Lobstermans House, Calf Island. lobstermen and their families now live on the island, under the paternal andeccentric sway of Captain Turner. About a hundred feet northward, and accessible hence at low tide, risesthe barren rock of Little Calf Island, fringed with weedy ledges. To thenorth is the narrow strait of Hypocrite Passage, through which small boatsfrequently run. Green Island is the most northerly of the group, and has a small areaof grassy earth in a great bowl of rock, and a long and gravelly South Point.When Samuel Choate, mariner, had reached his fiftieth year, in 1845, nesettled on this islet, hardly larger than a vessels deck, and built a rude hut,where he lived for twenty years, subsisting mainly on fish and muscles.During the famous storm of 1851, this maritime hermit was taken off bya pilot-boat, for his fast-anchored deck was submerged by the furious tide;and in 1865, old and feeble, he was removed to a charitable home. KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 227
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CLIFFS ON THE OUTER BREWSTER, AT LOW TIDE. This group of gaunt and jagged rocks, each with its bit of history, butmainly endowed with tragic interest, are the remotest outer guards of thewestern St. Botolphs Town, and around them flows the swelling tide of her 228 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. great commerce. Myriads of weary mariners have welcomed them withjoy, sailing inward from far-distant seas. Standing upon their strong bul-

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