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STRANGE DWELLINGS. 
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 4 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 well protected. 
