I Confess That In
This Respect I Think That But Few Towns Are At Present More
Fortunately Circumstanced Than The Capital Of The Bay State, As
Massachusetts Is Called, And That Very Few Towns Make A Better Use
Of Their Advantages.
Boston has a right to be proud of what it has
done for the world of letters.
It is proud; but I have not found
that its pride was carried too far.
Boston is not in itself a fine city, but it is a very pleasant
city. They say that the harbor is very grand and very beautiful.
It certainly is not so fine as that of Portland, in a nautical
point of view, and as certainly it is not as beautiful. It is the
entrance from the sea into Boston of which people say so much; but
I did not think it quite worthy of all I had heard. In such
matters, however, much depends on the peculiar light in which
scenery is seen. An evening light is generally the best for all
landscapes; and I did not see the entrance to Boston harbor by an
evening light. It was not the beauty of the harbor of which I
thought the most, but of the tea which had been sunk there, and of
all that came of that successful speculation. Few towns now
standing have a right to be more proud of their antecedents than
Boston.
But as I have said, it is not specially interesting to the eye;
what new town, or even what simply adult town, can be so?
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