Dungeon Rock; or, the pirate's cave, at LynnEmerson, N. S. (Nannette Snow)
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Dungeon Rock; or, the pirate's cave, at Lynn
Emerson, N. S. (Nannette Snow)
Pirates -- Massachusetts -- Lynn -- History
“Through tangled Juniper, beds of reeds,
Through many a fen where the serpent feeds,
And man never trod before;”
and at last came to the foot of a large hill, with an enormous ledge
upon the top. Upon climbing this, they saw spread out before them a
panoramic view of what they knew would prove a good hunting-ground,
for it had forests for game and water for fish. Then a loud cry of
“Iowah! Iowah!” made the welkin ring, and the whole party encamped
that night in the large, open cave, before commencing their work. They
called the river Saugus, which means broad or extended, and when the
tribe grew large and strong, and reached away down to the great “Father
of Waters,” they called the two beaches Nahaunte, which means, the
brothers, or the twins.
All this is to be revived again; the woodland to be laid out in
groves, and parks and forests; the spring in the cave to be cleared
again, and its brink bordered by marble slabs; the ancient, scattered
treasures will be gathered up, bright flashing diamonds, clear
white seed pearls, with heavy gold settings, and antique jewelry
and ornaments, that have been a long time lying useless. The heavy
iron-bound box, that was left there, has been disturbed and broken by
the action of the earth, and its contents are now duly mixed up with
equal quantities of dirt, loose stones, and rubbish, which the water
from the spring, all choked up as it is, has for the space of two
hundred consecutive years been laying. There was once a case of silks
left there, but, as the cave is not perfectly air and water tight, the
probability is that, although they look the same as ever, there is not
much durability to them. The grave of Arabel, Veale levelled down, but
the spot is still pointed out by mediums, and, although the tree under
which Harris laid her has long since decayed, another has grown up very
near where that was supposed to stand, which is now in the centre of a
thriving garden.
Cathrin’s sepulchre is the “rock of ages,” and traces of her remains
will be found upon one of the shelving places in the cave. The child
was buried, but
“The string of pearls and the lock of hair,
And the ring of gold that it used to wear,”
will be found by Cathrin’s side, where Veale, with his superstitious
reverence, placed them.
The cave will be found in two separate apartments, beside the entrance,
which clairvoyant mediums see as another room. Veale himself, or rather
his bones, will be found in the outer, or largest room, together with
the remains of his shoemaking tools. The other contents of the rock we
leave for time to discover, and the sagacity of the “Excavator” to make
known.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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