Word: ports
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Matthews Six, - Stroke, 150 lbs.; 2, 180; 3, 185; 4, 160; 5, 170; bow, 159. Port side, 505; starboard, 499. Cox., 114. Total weight...
Weld Six. - Stroke, 165 lbs.; 2, 160; 3, 161: 4, 160; 5, 153; bow, 160. Port side, 479; starboard, 480. Cox., 125. Total weight...
Holyoke Six. - Stroke, 168; 2, 168; 3, 170; 4, 162; 5, 152 1/2; bow, 160. Port side, 490 1/2; starboard, 490. Cox., 132. Total weight...
...evening making it a pleasant finale to the evening's enjoyment. While going through Cambridge Street, the colored gentry seemed to appreciate the sweet negro melodies which have been brought in vogue of late by '77. For some unaccountable reason the singing subsided as the party drew near the "Port," and there was a discussion what it was that, bred in the bone of the "Port peeler," made him so different from his brethren of Boston. But the party only saved their breath until they reached the Yard, when they gave the nine cheers, for the last time...
...with him, and as he was between fifty-five and sixty himself, he was conducting himself as absurdly as is usually the case under similar circumstances. On the morning of the third day after leaving Italy we came in sight of Alexandria, and about noon we arrived at the port, where those of us whose destination it was disembarked, and bade farewell to our friends of three days' standing...