pany of fifty or one hundred men, I am not certain which, that constantly are on duty; but in time of war five hundred able men are exempted from all other military duty to attend the service of the Castle at an hour's warning upon any signal given to the Castle of the appearance of any ships and their number. The Castle again warns the town, and, if there be five ships or more in time of war, an alarm is given to all the adjacent counties by firing a beacon. The province has also a galley or frigate well manned in time of war to guard the coast from privateers and to convoy their home trade." In 1740 the fort was again enlarged and in a manner rebuilt, and the Castle, as it then existed, is the place to which "Sam Adams's regiments" were withdrawn by Colonel Dalrymple after the Boston massacre. And now all the island is a pretty park, and boys may sail their shingle boats from the shore, or, under certain restrictions, they may go in and swim from the beach; and you can stay here till half an hour before sunset, when you may tell your boatman to bring you back to South Boston point; or, if you did not come in the boat, you may take a trolley car and for five cents each may go home and tell your mother all that has happened. IX. THE STREETS. It has been intimated, in preceding chapters of this book, that simply by walking in the streets of Boston one gets a sniff of the air of the history of past centuries. Something, not primeval or prehistoric, but oldfashioned or antiquarian, lingers even in the lines of the streets, and it is often recalled in their names. There are antiquaries in Boston who would gladly recall the names of the original days, for whom Boylston Street is still Frog Lane. It is asking too much to expect a return to these names from a Boston like the Boston of to-day, of which a majority of the inhabitants, are from emigrants who have come to this country since the year 1840. But the strangers in Boston who will use this book may be glad to have a key to a few of the names of the streets. through which they will go. It will answer their convenience best if these names are arranged in alphabetical order. Adams Street.--There are several Adams Streets in Boston, and several Adams Places, Squares, etc. All of them are named from the first or second President Adams. John Adams, the first President of that name, though not born in Boston, lived in Boston for a considerable part of his early life. His house was very near the scene of the Boston massacre; the whole neighborhood is changed so that it is difficult to "dilate with the right emotion" when one visits the spot, but it was in Brattle Square, a little below where the church stood. A house in the possession of the family later occupied the same site which the Adams House hotel occupies to-day, and that name may be considered as a historical name. Albany Street. This long thoroughfare was made at the time when the South Cove, so called, was reclaimed from the ocean by |