Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . CHAPTER XXVIII. NAHANT.. Stranger, if you would visit one of the raost pleasantand delightful watering places in the world, seat yourselfin the cars, be landed at Lynn, take passage in one of thestages that leave almost hourly, and when deposited inNahant-take your Guides word for it-you will blessyour stars, and thank him. Here, isolated from the noise, 249 2.)0 BOSTON AND VICINITT, and hoar, and bustle of the city, you may wander by theliour on tlie rocks, and watc-Ii the liquid chisel of the seat!t its unwearied task upon the lihie an
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Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . CHAPTER XXVIII. NAHANT.. Stranger, if you would visit one of the raost pleasantand delightful watering places in the world, seat yourselfin the cars, be landed at Lynn, take passage in one of thestages that leave almost hourly, and when deposited inNahant-take your Guides word for it-you will blessyour stars, and thank him. Here, isolated from the noise, 249 2.)0 BOSTON AND VICINITT, and hoar, and bustle of the city, you may wander by theliour on tlie rocks, and watc-Ii the liquid chisel of the seat!t its unwearied task upon the lihie and slaty substanceof the crajjs. Atom l)y atom they yield to the muscularswing of the billows, worn and })olis!ied by their frothyedges, — the toughest erration eontjuered by the softest, and the noise of this constant scui])ture is the music ofthe world. The rocks are torn into sncii varieties of f)rin, and thebeaclies are so hard and smooth, that all the beauty ofwave motion and the whole gamut of ocean eloquence areoffered here to the eye and ear. The soil swash of thelight