Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . OSTON AND VJCIMJV. 251 of their crests, as they bend just before they tumble inmusic; all the loveliness imd majesty of the ocean aredisplayed around the jagged and savage-browed cliffs ofNahant. This Harrt)\v jiromontory, which runs out from LynnBeach, is crowned with charming gardens, cottages, andvillas, and rests like an emerald in its sparkling and frettedframework of brilliants. AVhile the rocks present everyvariety of color, the cliffs are pierced by fissures, caverns,and grottos so numerous that the visitor stands in awe ;and the
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . OSTON AND VJCIMJV. 251 of their crests, as they bend just before they tumble inmusic; all the loveliness imd majesty of the ocean aredisplayed around the jagged and savage-browed cliffs ofNahant. This Harrt)\v jiromontory, which runs out from LynnBeach, is crowned with charming gardens, cottages, andvillas, and rests like an emerald in its sparkling and frettedframework of brilliants. AVhile the rocks present everyvariety of color, the cliffs are pierced by fissures, caverns,and grottos so numerous that the visitor stands in awe ;and the shell-crowned beaches of shining, silvery sand areso i^mooth and hard that they take no impress of thesteeds hoof or the rolling wheel; and as the mind doesnot seem capable of containing all, follow the Guide, andview each object separately. Turning to the left of NaHxVNT Beach, over which wehave just come, a vast fissure in the cliff, forty feet indepth, is seen, bearing the name of Johns Peril. Atthe distance of three fourths of a mile from where we. 2i^2. BOSTON AND VICINITY. Stand, Egg Rock rises abruptly from the sea to the hei;ihtof eighty-six feet. Its sliape is oval, and on its summitthe gulls (U[)osit their eggs in abundance, whence it takesits name.* Passing the luox JMi:>K, (a huge black ledge,)we reach Thk Spouting Hokn. Here the water, afterbeing driven through a rocky tunnel one hundred feet inlength into a deejj cavern, is spouted forth in wild sheetsof foam and si)ray, while the Atlantics billows seem tojar the solid rocks with thundering sound, and shake thevery crags that dare to stay their onward piogress. Pass-ing Lkdge, we reach
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