Word: regions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...general topography of the landscape about here is determined by the low range of rocky hills which surrounds this region, and the three rivers, the Charles, Mystic and Neponset, which cut through it. The most characteristic features of the views are the very numerous glacial ponds, the narrow, open valleys, the small rock-broken hills and the broad level salt marshes. Beautiful views are to be obtained along the coast at all seasons of the year. No better illustration of sand beach with its rollers can be found than Revere Beach, easily accessible by the narrow gauge railway from Boston...
...Olmsted, Jr., in his lecture last evening on "Landscape in and about Boston and Cambridge," explained the general features of the landscape of this region, and showed by the stereopticon many of its interesting and beautiful views. He emphasized the accessibility of all the country about Boston, which offers great opportunity for valuable trips. No point within a radius of twenty-five miles from Boston is more than three miles from a car line...
About Ispwich the marshes furnish views beautiful in their breadth and simplicity; nearer Cambridge, as in Waverly, Woburn, the Middlesex Fells, and in the valley of the Mystic there are many scenes of great attractiveness. The landscape views of this region are mostly small in effect. It is only along the coast, on the marshes and on the hills, as in the Blue Hills, that we find breadth and largeness of view...
Coming to the immediate environment of Cambridge we find natural features in the geologic formations that have influenced seriously the lives of men in this region since the earliest settlements. The deposits of boulders so common about here drove the pioneers to their towns on barren sand plains instead of on the fertile but stubborn hills and valleys. The slow, persevering labor necessary to reclaim the present farm land from boulders and forests has had an almost inestimable effect on the characters of the New Englanders...
...Charles Peabady, Ph.D. '93, of the Archaeological Department of Andover, undertook during May and June some excavations for the Peabody Museum in the region of the Mississippi Delta. He was assisted by W. C. Farabee 3G. From the two mounds which he examined he collected ten boxes of specimens--skeletons, points of arrows, lances and javelins, and a few pots and stone implements...