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Excerpt from The Picture of Nahant
In no part of the world can so pleasant and so delightful a watering place be found-as N a. Hant. Its bold projection, almost three miles into the ocean, leaving it nearly surrounded by water - the healthy'and invigorating atmosphere With which it is constantly visited - its couve nient isolation from the noise and heat and bus tle of the adjacent cities - the numerous beaches and coves around its shores, interspersed and varied by craggy and precipitous cliffs, compris ing the greatest diversity of primitive and igne ous formation any where to be found within so small a compass, affording d most interesting study for the geologist - its wild and singular caverns and grottoes, into which the tide dashes and regurgitates - and the illimitable prospect of ocean, forest, mountain, city and rural scen ery, render it an object of interest to all, and.
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