| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 1028 pages
...Boston, and is connected with the city by three bridges. The more compact part of the town is built on a peninsula, the centre of which is occupied by Bunker Hill. The houses stand on the eastern and southern slope of the hill, and along its base. The main street... | |
| Adriano Balbi - 1835 - 578 pages
...of Boston, and is connected with the city by 3 bridges. The more compact part of the town is built on a peninsula, the centre of which is occupied by Bunker Hill. It is an irregular town, but the views of the city, harbor and neighboring country from the elevated... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 516 pages
...city by three bridges, and with Chelsea and Maiden by two. The more compact part of the town is built on a peninsula, the centre of which is occupied by Bunker Hill. The houses stand on the eastern and southern slope of the hill, and along its base. The main street... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 646 pages
...accommodation of those who were soon to come over to New England.* The more compact part of the town is built on a peninsula, the centre of which is occupied by Bunker Hill. The houses stand on the eastern and southern slope of the hill, and along its base. The main street... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1851 - 348 pages
...the British to leave the town. 7. Charlestown is connected with Boston by two bridges. It is situated on a peninsula, the centre of which is occupied by...Hill Monument, built of granite, is 220 feet high froir its base, which is thirty feet square. Cambridge, three miles north, west of Boston, contains... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1853 - 354 pages
...Exchange. 8. Charlestown and Cambridge are connected with Boston by bridges. The former is situated on a peninsula, the centre of which is occupied by...during the revolutionary war. The Bunker Hill Monument, bnilt to commemorate this battle, is of granite, 221 feet in height. Cambridge contains Harvard University.... | |
| James Mursell Phillippo - 1857 - 506 pages
...of Boston, and is connected with it by three bridges. The centre of the town is occupied by Bunker s Hill, celebrated for the battle fought on it during the revolutionary war, and which is commemorated by a monument, a plain granite shaft, two hundred and twenty feet high and... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1860 - 360 pages
...Exchange. 8. Charlestown and Cambridge are connected with Boston by bridges. The former is situated on a peninsula, the centre of which is occupied by...revolutionary war. The Bunker Hill Monument, built to commemorate this battle, is of granite, 221 feet in height. Cambridge contains Harvard University.... | |
| Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 336 pages
...Britain. Charleston is in point of locality a suburb of Boston. The more compact part of the town is built on a peninsula, the centre of which is occupied by Bunker HilL The houses stand on the eastern and southern slope of the hill and along its base. The main street... | |
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