Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . Pulpit Rock, a huge mass of stone nearly twenty feetsquare, and rising full thirty feet above the yeasty upper portion of the rock bears a striking resem-blance to a pile of books, with a seat opening in their NAHANT. 185 midst; but the steepness of the crag renders the ascentvery difficult, as the road to knowledge always has beenfound to Swallows Cave is a passage eight feet high, tenwide, and seventy-two feet in length, opening into the the swallows inhabited this cave in great num-bers, and built their
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . Pulpit Rock, a huge mass of stone nearly twenty feetsquare, and rising full thirty feet above the yeasty upper portion of the rock bears a striking resem-blance to a pile of books, with a seat opening in their NAHANT. 185 midst; but the steepness of the crag renders the ascentvery difficult, as the road to knowledge always has beenfound to Swallows Cave is a passage eight feet high, tenwide, and seventy-two feet in length, opening into the the swallows inhabited this cave in great num-bers, and built their nests in the irregularities of the rocksabove; but the multitude of visitors has frightened themaway. Continuing on our way, we reach16* 186 SUBURBAN SIGHTS.
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