Guide de Boston et environs, avec cartes et gravures . ne cent quatre-vingt-un pieds de seveninches ; et à l'arrière du Mont Vernon-street, cent soixante-six pieds et cinq pouces. De la fondation à l'sunnuit exclusif, des garde-fous, c'est sur la rue-derne sixtv-six pieds, et à l'arrière du Mont Vernon-•itreet ihree 45 pieds de haut. Cet édifice est un immense bassin, ou réservoir. Itrests sur papier arches de force immense, quatorze pieds trois quarts et span. Le bassin contient 2,678,9(31 wine gal-lons de l'eau. Deux comprimés de granit sont placés sur le côté nord de th BOSTON ET VlCINIir. 71 Res

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Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . ne hundred and ninety-one feet seveninches; and on the rear of Mount Vernon-street, twohundred and six feet and five inches. From the founda-tion to the sunnuit, exclusive of railing, it is on Derne-street sixtv-six feet, and on the rear of Mount Vernon-•itreet forty-ihree feet high. This building is an immense basin, or reservoir. Itrests on arches of immense strength, fourteen and threefourths feet span. The basin holds 2, 678, 9(31 wine gal-lons of water. Two granite tablets are placed on the north side of th BOSTON AND VlCINIir. 71 Reservoir, witli the following inscriptions: BOSTON WATER-WORKS. BEGUN AUGUST, 1846. WATEK INTRODUCED OCTOBER, 1848 JOSIAH QUINCY, JR., Mayor. (NATHAN HALE, COMMISSIONERS, ^ JAMES F. BALDWIN, -/THOMAS B. CURTIS. BOSTON WATER-WORKS THE RESERVOIR COMPLETED NOVEMBER, 1849.JOHN P. BIGELOW, Mayor. rW. S. WHITWELL, I ENGINEERS, ^ E. S. CHESBROUGH, ^JOHN. B. JERVIS, C W. S. WHITWELL, East Div. West Dit. CoNSCLTlNa. CHAPTER V111. BOSTON COMMON. OLD ELM. PROG PONDo. Were we to be asked, What is the great feature ofBoston city, we should assuredly reply, Boston Common, The parks of the British metropolis have not unaptlybeen termed the lungs of London. With equal appropri-ateness the Commoi of Boston may be styled the great BOSTON AN1> VICINITY. 73 breathing apparatus of Boston. In summer or in winterthose forty-eight acres of undulating ground, green withgrass or white with snow, constitute a favorite place ofresort. And when the noble trees that abound there arethick with foliage, no more delightful promenade thanthose broad avenues beneath their interlacing boughscould well be imagined. A glance at the early history of the Common may notbe uninteresting. In 1634, commissioners were chosen to dispose of un-occupied lands. They were directed to leave out portionsfor new comers and the further Ijencfits of the tOAvn. TlieCommon was among the reserved portions, nnd becamepublic property, a

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