Excerpt from Sentry, or Beacon Hill: The Beacon and the Monument of 1635 and 1790We are under great Obligations to Mr. Smith for permission to use these chromos for the illustration of our subject only a few copies of them now remain in his hands. The view of the town of Boston, Charles River Bridge (built in 1785) and the harbor, is taken from the Massachusetts Magazine of June.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.