Starting in front of the Hotel Statler, Providence Street side, get into your car and follow the island around to the left turning right at Arlington Street and again right at Boylston Street. The Boston Public Gardens will be on your left and after crossing Charles Street the Boston Common will be on the left. At the second stop light turn left at Tremont Street. Continue along Tremont Street, still passing the Common on the left, until we come to the Old Park Street Church, spoken of in one of our earlier chapters, the Granary Cemetery, the Parker House (made famous by Parker House rolls), opposite which is King’s Chapel and King’s Chapel burying ground. You come out at Scollay Square; cross in a straight line to Cornhill Street. Follow through to Washington Street, crossing Washington Street in a straight line for Faneuil Hall, commonly known as “The Cradle of Liberty.” Here turn left, turning right almost immediately, following the Sumner Tunnel sign on to North Street. Continue on North Street to the AMOCO Service Station, turning left and into the Tunnel which you go through to East Boston. Leaving the Tunnel, turn right on Porter Street and go to Chelsea Street where you turn left following along to Bennington Street turning right on Bennington Street, proceed to Swift Street. Turn left and then right on to the Boulevard for Revere. The buildings seen over the top of the Mexican Petroleum tanks are the U. S. Marine Hospital buildings. Going along the Boulevard a short distance, you come to the Suffolk Downs Race Track the latest and one of the largest race tracks to be built in America; a marvelous piece of engineering—the transformation of a city dump into a spot of beauty as well as a great place of amusement for a sport loving people. Continue to the 1-A arrow and follow it around to the first stop light, then follow the car tracks to Revere Beach Parkway. Turn left, follow the Revere Beach Parkway with the ocean on your right, and Revere Beach the famous Coney Island of New England on the left. It is here that thousands seek relief from the city’s heat during the summer and the sandy beach is crowded with people. Follow the shore line. The point of land seen extending out into the water as you approach the rotary traffic is Nahant. Follow the rotary traffic around to your left and you come to Route 1-A again, passing over the new General Edwards Memorial Bridge. Continue over Route 1-A to the town of Lynn, turning right at Washington Street and proceeding along same to the Lynn Shore Drive where you turn left, following the trail of Boston’s finest summer playground. Approaching Swampscott you will be pleased with the natural beauty of the surroundings, and it is here that artists come from all over the country to paint pictures of a “stern and rockbound coast.”