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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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 reduced materially by the construction of the mill - dam , it would undoubtedly ...
... 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 reduced materially by the construction of the mill - dam , it would undoubtedly ...
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100 A parcel amount avenue basin Board bounded as follows bridge building cent channel Charles River City of Boston committee commonwealth containing one thousand cost court dollars eastwardly Edward effect eighteen expense extended fifteen fifty five flats foot formerly belonging forty four George give Hall harbor heirs Henry Hill houses hundred increase James John Joseph laid less Library loan Mary mean measuring twenty nine Northeast northeastwardly by land Northwest parcel of land park persons portion present Printed proposed Public purchase question Railroad reference Samuel seven side sixty Southeast southwest square feet street Suffolk taken thirty Thomas tion trustees twenty feet volumes wardly by land Washington westwardly by land White whole widening
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| Title | Documents of the City of Boston, Volume 3 |
| Author | Boston (Mass.). City Council |
| Published | 1870 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Oct 2011 |
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