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Rh a, a , a , a lecture-hall, &c. A single lonely man, the Rev., a  of the , was then living, with , , and  on the slope of the central , supposed to have come over in 1623, one of several isolated settlers on the promontories and s of the , called &ldquo;the old planters.&rdquo; He invited 's company to cross the  and build their cabins on his side, because of the purer and more abundant. On the records of the company we read, that at a held in,  17 (undefined), 1630, &ldquo;It is ordered that Trimountaine shall be called Boston.&rdquo; This has consequently been the date assumed for the foundation of what is now the present , and the second centennial of which was commemorated by public civic services, an  by , a former , then  of , and a  by the -,. It is not probable that the was occupied till a month later. , not finding the new-comers congenial associates, sold out his rights to them in 1634, and moved elsewhere. It has often been said, and has been widely accepted, that Boston received its name in compliment to the second of its first , the, formerly of ,  of , ,. This was not the case. The, of , , and of , in , , came in 's company, and was first of the. did not arrive till 4, 1633, three years after the name Boston had been adopted. Undoubtedly the name was chosen in compliment to the much honoured, one of the foremost in the enterprise, who with his wife, the Lady Arbella, daughter of the , came with in a  bearing her name. was from the, as were also his associates, , who had been  of the , and , &ldquo;ruling &rdquo; of the , who had been an.        Some graceful courtesies have been exchanged in recent years between the two cities. The  sent  over a copy of her, framed in  from , and this now hangs in the  of the  capital; and some descendants of , with members of his  , through one of their number, , then   at the , united in a generous subscription to restore a  in , and to erect a monumental tablet in it to the revered teacher.

The -girt seems to have attracted the choice of the  as a place of settlement, because of its facilities for  and for. Its had previously been devasted by a, leaving it vacant. Some fifty s afterwards the settlers satisfied the claims of an, representing that his grandfather had been its proprietor. Had these settlers contemplated the enormous outlay of labour, skill, and money, which their posterity would have to expend upon the original site to make it habitable and commodious, they might have planted themselves elsewhere. There was neither nor  on the ; but it might be defended from the  and, and as one early visitor vainly imagined, from &ldquo;.&rdquo; The surface was very abrupt, irregular, hilly, and undulating, deeply indented by coves, and surrounded by -es left oozy by the ebbing s, and separating the shores from the  s. The  contained less than 1000 s, and the narrow neck, which joined it to the main, was often swept by spray and water. The