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sugarloaf, i.e. a round-topped cone with a flat bottom. It is 

 found in several parts of Central America ; and in Guiana the 

 nest goes by the popular name of ' the Dutchman's pipe,' being 

 supposed to bear, in shape and dimensions, some resemblance 



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to the pipe-bowl celebrated by Washington Irving. The exterior 

 walls are so hard, firm, and smooth, that they can withstand any 

 vicissitudes of weather, neither the fierce storms that blow in 

 those regions, nor the torrents of rain which occasionally fall, 

 having any power over an edifice so vv^ell protected. 



