Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . Castle Rock. The Imttlements, buttresses, turrets,and embrasures of an ancient castle ere sc faithfully rep • * A ULlit hou-ii has been erpctpd on this rock. BOSTON AND VICINITY^ 2r)3 resented by this immense pile of rocks, that one almostwaits for tiie wardens challenge or the trumpets blastand expects to see the square openings (so like doors midwindows) peopled with armed men. In Caldkon Cliff the water boils with tremendousforce and fury during great storms ; and in RoaringCavern the sound is distinctly heard. Crossing Natu-ral Bridg
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Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . Castle Rock. The Imttlements, buttresses, turrets, and embrasures of an ancient castle ere sc faithfully rep • * A ULlit hou-ii has been erpctpd on this rock. BOSTON AND VICINITY^ 2r)3 resented by this immense pile of rocks, that one almostwaits for tiie wardens challenge or the trumpets blastand expects to see the square openings (so like doors midwindows) peopled with armed men. In Caldkon Cliff the water boils with tremendousforce and fury during great storms ; and in RoaringCavern the sound is distinctly heard. Crossing Natu-ral Bridge, we may see the varying tides and jaggedrocks full twenty feet below us, and we reach. PuLiiT Rock, 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 sti-iking resem-blance to a pile of books, with a seat opening in their22 K>A BOSTON AND VICINITr. midst; but the steepness of the crag renders the ascentvery ditRcuh, as the road to knowledge always has beenfound to be.