Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . auty. But. however delightful Xahant may appear in sum-mer, it is surpassed by the grandhing into the roughgoiges — thundering in the subterranean caverns of rocks,and throwing the whiti; ioam and spray, hke vast columnsof smoke, hundreds of feet in the air, above the tallestciifls — an appearance is presented which the wildestunagination cannot surpass. Then the ocean — checkedin its headlong career by a simple bar of sand — as if22* 258 BOSTON AXU VICrNITY. mad with its detention, roars like protracted thunder; andthe wild sea birds, b
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Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . auty. But. however delightful Xahant may appear in sum-mer, it is surpassed by the grandhing into the roughgoiges — thundering in the subterranean caverns of rocks, and throwing the whiti; ioam and spray, hke vast columnsof smoke, hundreds of feet in the air, above the tallestciifls — an appearance is presented which the wildestunagination cannot surpass. Then the ocean — checkedin its headlong career by a simple bar of sand — as if22* 258 BOSTON AXU VICrNITY. mad 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 incli 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 nt Nahant is delightful; and a .storm inwinter is glorious, but terrible. Maolis. — Mr. Tudor, known as tlio iec-king, fromhis enterprise* in supplying many portions of the globewith ice from ^Massachusetts, set apart from his extensivepossessions this beautiful spot for parties of pleasure, whoresort thither, in summer, in large numbers, from the neigh-boring towns and cities. He selected its fanciful name, IIOSTUX AND VICINITY. 259 Siloum reversed, from the health-giviug property of itst!ea-baths, to be enjoyed in the grottos and recesses of itsshores. Money has been profusely expended in mason, shell, and pebble work, statuary, fountains, swings, andother contrivances for amusement; and the crowd thatresort there on pleasant days proves it to have been welllaid out. The grounds comprise about twenty ac