COMMERCIAL STREET IN WEYMOUTH Frontispiece

THE STATE HOUSE FROM PARK STREET ix

MAP OF THE SOUTH SHORE _facing_ 1

DORCHESTER BAY 1

OFF FOR PLYMOUTH BY THE OLD COAST ROAD 18

GREAT BLUE HILL 19

MILTON ESTATES _facing_ 20

THE FORE RIVER SHIPYARD 35

THE ADAMS HOUSES IN QUINCY 56

THE WEYMOUTH WATER-FRONT 57

RATTLING ALONG THE OLD COAST ROAD 74

THE LINCOLN HOUSE IN HINGHAM 75

THE OLD SHIP MEETING-HOUSE _facing_ 76

INTERIOR OF THE NEW NORTH CHURCH IN HINGHAM,
WITH ITS SLAVE GALLERIES 91

COHASSET LEDGES AND MINOT'S LEDGE LIGHT 92

MODERN COHASSET 110

DRYING SEA-MOSS AT SCITUATE HARBOR 111

FOURTH CLIFF, SCITUATE 122

THE WEBSTER HOUSE 123

MARSHFIELD MEADOWS _facing_ 136

A DUXBURY COTTAGE 142

A BAY VIEW TO DUXBURY BEACH 156

THE STANDISH MONUMENT AS SEEN FROM KINGSTON 157

OLD RECORDS 174

THE MEMORIAL BUILDING FOR THE TOWN OF
PLYMOUTH, DESIGNED BY LITTLE AND RUSSELL,
ARCHITECTS 175

VIEW FROM STEPS OF BURIAL HILL, PLYMOUTH,
SHOWING THE TOWN SQUARE, LEYDEN STREET,
THE CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMAGE, THE FIRST
CHURCH, AND, IN THE DISTANCE, THE PILGRIM
MONUMENT IN PROVINCETOWN _facing_ 192

CLARK'S ISLAND, PLYMOUTH 203

BOSTON: A FOREWORD

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To love Boston or to laugh at Boston--it all depends on whether or not
you are a Bostonian. Perhaps the happiest attitude--and the most
intelligent--is tinged with both amusement and affection: amusement at
the undeviating ceremonial of baked beans on Saturday night and fish
balls on Sunday morning; at the Boston bag (not so ubiquitous now as
formerly); at the indefatigable consumption of lectures; at the
Bostonese pronunciation; affection for the honorable traditions, noble
buildings, distinguished men and women. Boston is an old city--one must
remember that it was settled almost three centuries ago--and old c