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... Basin , " as it was called , in which the water varied from one to three feet above low water mark . In that year , a negotiation , which had been going on between the city and the Worcester Railroad Corporation for more than a year ...
... Basin , " as it was called , in which the water varied from one to three feet above low water mark . In that year , a negotiation , which had been going on between the city and the Worcester Railroad Corporation for more than a year ...
Page v
... basin , and was intended to discharge the dry weather or house drainage into the South Bay , and by weirs or overflows allow the storm water to discharge by the old outlets into the Back Bay . This scheme was hardly in operation when it ...
... basin , and was intended to discharge the dry weather or house drainage into the South Bay , and by weirs or overflows allow the storm water to discharge by the old outlets into the Back Bay . This scheme was hardly in operation when it ...
Page 12
... basin they are now at work upon ; and probably the marshy ground in front of Brookline , which ought to be filled up , and which is of no use to the harbor , will be filled with gravel . If we could do that , if we could excavate ...
... basin they are now at work upon ; and probably the marshy ground in front of Brookline , which ought to be filled up , and which is of no use to the harbor , will be filled with gravel . If we could do that , if we could excavate ...
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... basin , which I understand is contemplated , is to be made solely for the benefit of the harbor . I take it if that were the sole purpose , - to benefit navigation , the committee would leave the question to the United States , to whom ...
... basin , which I understand is contemplated , is to be made solely for the benefit of the harbor . I take it if that were the sole purpose , - to benefit navigation , the committee would leave the question to the United States , to whom ...
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... basins , without a diminution of the width of the harbor , would reduce the depth of the harbor . When , in 1820 , the tidal basin of the Charles River was re- duced materially by the construction of the mill - dam , it would ...
... basins , without a diminution of the width of the harbor , would reduce the depth of the harbor . When , in 1820 , the tidal basin of the Charles River was re- duced materially by the construction of the mill - dam , it would ...
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100 A parcel avenue Back Bay Beacon street bounded as follows bridge building Castle street cent channel Chapman street Charles River City of Boston committee commonwealth containing eight hundred containing nine hundred containing one thousand containing seven hundred containing six hundred described as taken dollars Dover street East Boston eastwardly Edward Tuckerman Eliot street Emerald street filling flats foot formerly belonging formerly of George formerly of Henry formerly of James formerly of John formerly of Mary formerly of William heirs of Edward Indiana place land belonging legislature less loan Lucas street measuring twenty feet Middlesex street Northeast northeastwardly by land Northwest parcel of land park Sarah SHATTUCK side South Boston Southeast southeastwardly southwest square feet Suffolk street tidal basins Tremont street trustees twenty and feet wardly by land Washington street West Boston bridge westwardly by land wharf