Shawmut: Or, the Settlement of Boston By the Puritan Pilgrims
Shawmut: Or, the Settlement of Boston By the Puritan Pilgrims
Charles K Charles Kittredge True
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The pressure of the tide against the mouths of the subterranean acqueduct >irill pre- vent for a time the passage of the water ; of course the water will rise in the wells, which are supplied by those acqueducts. When the tide falls, the water will fall in the wells situated as now supposed. Thus does the Almighty ** send waters into the vallies, which run among the hills ; they go up by the moun- tains, they go down by the vallies, unto the place which is ap- pointed for them.'' Besides those ...already mentioned, it is said some of the Mount Vernon springs are still flowing on premises in that neighbor- hood, which they will probably continue to do, as the use of wells has been wholly discontinued in the city. 88 BEAGOK HILL SPRINGS. It is stated that the original name of the peninsula, which was S/iawmtU, signifies a place of ^' living fountains." It is pretty evident that numeroas springs underlie the peninsula in all directions, as there has never been any deficiency of water obtainable by means of wells, even in those portions of the city redeemed from the waters of the harbor.
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