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Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger (1856)

Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894, Andrew, John, 1815-1875, egr., Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1875, egr., Hill George W., 1815-1893, egr., Barry, egr. · John P. Jewett & Co.; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington · leaf 208

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Pulpit Eock, a huge mass of stone nearly twenty feetsquare, and rising full thirty feet above the yeasty billows.The 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… … Swallows Cave is a passage eight feet high, tenwide, and seventy-two feet in length, opening into the sea.Formerly 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…

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