CHAP. VI. 



JSTATURJL CURIOSITIES OF THE 

 UJVITMD STATES. 



In the township of Chester, New Hampshh^e, oa 

 the main rpad from Newbury port to Dartmouth 

 college, is a circular eminence, half a mile in dia- 

 meter, and 400 feet high, called Rattle Snake Bill, 

 On the south side, ten yards from its base is the 

 entrance of a cave called the Devil's Den^ in which 

 is a room 15 or 20 feet square, and four feet high^ 

 floored and circled by a regular rock, from the 

 upper part of which are dependent many excres- 

 cences, nearly in the form and size of a pear, and 

 -when approached by a torch, throw out a sparkling 

 lustre of almost every hue.* Many frightful stories 

 have been told of this cave, by those who delight ia 

 the marvellous. It is a cold, dreary, gloomy place. 



In the town of Durham, in the same statue, is a 

 rock, computed to weigh 60 or 70 tons. It lies s» 

 exactly poised on another rock, as to be easily" 

 moved with one finger. It is on the top of a hill, 

 a.nd appears to be natural. 



In the towship of Atkinson, in a large meadow 



' No doubt they are stalactites, already mentioned in this worlc 



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