Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . 189 to fury, are foaming along like living mountains — break-ing upon the precipitous cliffs — dashing into the roughgorges — thundering in the subterranean caverns of rocks,and throwing the white foam and spray, like vast columnsof smoke, hundreds of feet in the air, above the tallestcliffs — an appearance is presented which the wildestimagination cannot surpass. Then the ocean — checkedin its headlong career by a simple bar of sand — as ifmad with its detention, roars like protracted thunder; andthe wild sea birds, borne along by the
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . 189 to fury, are foaming along like living mountains — break-ing upon the precipitous cliffs — dashing into the roughgorges — thundering in the subterranean caverns of rocks,and throwing the white foam and spray, like vast columnsof smoke, hundreds of feet in the air, above the tallestcliffs — an appearance is presented which the wildestimagination cannot surpass. Then the ocean — checkedin its headlong career by a simple bar of sand — as ifmad with its detention, roars like protracted thunder; andthe wild sea birds, borne along by the furious waters, aredashed to death against the cliffs. Standing at such anhour upon the rocks, I have seen the waves bend bars ofiron an inch in diameter double, float rocks of granite six-teen feet in length, as if they were timbers of wood, andthe wind, seizing the white gull in its irresistible embrace,bear her, shrieking, many miles into Lynn woods. Insummer a day at Nahant is delightful; and a storm inwinter is glorious, but CHAPTER XX BOSTON HARBOR. ISLANDS. FARM SCHOOL. ALMS-HOUSE. FORT INDEPENDENCE. FORT WLNTHROP.
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