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FABLES   IN   AMERICA 1890

About two miles from Lvnn's city proper, and up a steep hill, therer is a large mass of rock, known far and wide as " The Pirate's Dungeon Cave." The writer and two friends, by a few cents each, were permitted to enter the" dark abyss, though our guide speedily lighted lanterns affixed on the rooky, damp walls, and carrying one in his hand, he introduced us to the explorations; and after the legend is given.

This is the " legend " which the narrator found in the little graph of the rock; eminence: — a cave in this place, which was frequented by pirates. Since the great earthquake in 1658, which closed the original entrance, no vestige of the cave is discernible, and at that time a pirate, known as Thomas Veal, was imprisoned alive; hence the place ia called ' Pirate'a dungeon.' It's believed by many that treasures are secured here, and various attempts have been made to force an entrance to the cave. Some years ago renewed attempts were made to blow up the place, bnt succeeded only in displacing a mass of rocks. Subsequently Jesse Hutchinaon (one of the singing brothers), but he abandoned a labor so very expensive and laborious. Afterwards, Mr. Hiram Marble, under the guidance of clairvoyants and spiritual mediums, commenced the present excavations (about eight years since Mr. Hut chin son's yen-tare) ; he has penetrated into the solid rock to the distance of more than one hundred feet, making a passageway eight feet in diameter; he professed to be guided in his operations by the spirits of the pirates who occupied the cave, the predictions of the spirits in finding the cave and treasures, it will certainly be an irresistible evidence of the truth of Spiritualism ; but should he fail so to do, it will prove the the excavators." So much for the legend. But the writer was informed that it was as far back as 1861 when Mr. Hiram Marble, Ken., undertook this serous work for years, failed in his purpose, after spending thousands of dollars, and died, perhaps. broken-hearted. His son took up where his father left off ; excavated at great expense some feet further in tbe rock, found no treasure, and died comparatively a young man supposed full value.   Like Captain Kidd, the once buccaneer in ;i little 'inlet near "Stony Creek," Conn., called "Pot Island," but it was supposition only, as may be tbe ease of this dungeon pirates near Lynn.
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THE PIRATES'  GLEN.
THE year 1658 was signalized in New England by a great earthquake, which is mentioned in some of thu old chronicles. Connected with this convulsion, which in the olden time was regarded as a most signal mark of the displeasure of Heaven, is the following story. There are, it should be said, two or three circumstances, or rather facts, giving to this legend a color of authenticity, which are of themselves sufficient to create a doubt whether, after all, it has not a more substantial foundation than has generally been conceded to it. We willingly give it the benefit of this doubt; meanwhile contenting ourselves with the statement that its first appearance in print, so far as known to the writer, was in Lewis's " History of Lyne." But here is the legend in all its purity. Some time previous to the great earthquake, in the twilight of a pleasant evening on the coast, n small bark was seen to approach the shore, furl her sails, and drop her anchor near the mouth of Saugus River. A boat was presently lowered from her side, which four men got into and rowed silently up the river to where it enters the hills, when they landed, and plunged into the woods skirting the banks. These movements had been noticed by only a few individuals; but in those early times, when the people were surrounded by dangers and were easily alarmed, such an incident was well calculated to awaken suspicion, so that in the course of the evening the intelligence had spread from house to house, and many wcro the conjectures respecting the strangers' business. In the morning all eyes were naturally directed toward the shore, in search of the stranger-vessel: but she was no longer there, and no trace either of her or of her singular crew could be found. It was afterward learned, however, that on the morning of the vessel's disappearance a workman, upon going to his daily task at the Forge, on the river's bank, had found a paper running to the effect that if a certain quantity of shackles, handcuffs, and other articles named were made, and with secrecy deposited in a certain place in the woods, which was particularly described, no amount of silver equal to their full value would be found in their stead. The manacles were duly made and secreted, in conformity with the strange directions. On the following morning they had been taken away, and the money left according to the letter of thu promise; but notwithstanding the fact that a strict watch had been kept, no sign of a vessel could be discovered in the offing. Some months later than this event, which bod furnished a fruitful theme for the village gossips, the four men returned, and selected one of the most secluded and romantic spots in the woods of Saugus for their abode ; and the talc has been further embellished to the effect that the pirate chief brought with him a beautiful woman. The place of their retreat was a deep and narrow valley, shut in on two sides by craggy, precipitous rocks, and screened on the other by a thick growth of pines, hemlocks, and cedars. There was only one small spot to which the rays of the noonday sun could penetrate. Upon climbing tho rude and nearly perpendicular steep of the cliff on the eastern side of this glen, tho cyo commanded a noble expanse of sea stretching far to tho south, besides a wide extent of the surrounding country. No spot on the coast could have been better chosen for the double purpose of concealment and observation. Even at thin day, when the neighborhood has become thickly peopled, it is still a lonely and desolate place, whose gloomy recesses are comparatively unknown and unvisited. Here the pirates built themselves a small hut, made a garden, and dug a well, of which some traces still remain. It is supposed that they also buried money here, and search has been made for it at various times, but none has ever been found ; and to deepen the mystery, it is said that the pirate's mistress, who is described us very pale and beautiful, having sickened and died, was buried here in an unknown grave, under the thick shade of the pines. After a time the retreat of the pirates became noised about. They were traced to their glen. Three of them wore taken to England, — there being at that time no law in the Colony to punish piracy, — where it is supposed that they paid the penalty for their crimes upon the gib-Iwt. The third, whose name was Thomas Yeale, escaped to s cavern in the woods, which he and his confederates had previously made use of a place of deposit for their ill-gotten booty. In this lonely place the fugitive fixed his residence, practising the trade of a shoemaker, and occasionally visiting the village to obtain food, until the earthquake which ushered in tlio legend, splitting to its foundations the rock in which the cavern was situated, forever sealed the entrance, enclosing the doomed corsair in his frightful tomb. This cliff has ever since been known as Dungeon Rock, and the first retreat of the freebooters has always borne the name of The Pirates' Glen.
The sequel to the legend that we have so conscientiously related to the reader, is more striking by its reality, more incredible, one might almost say, than the legend itself is, with all its dramatic surroundings. The story of Dungeon Rock now leaves the realm of the legendary fur that of active supernatural agency ; and it may be doulitcd if thu whole world can produce another such example of the absorbing pursuit of an idea which has become the lixed and dominant impulse of a life. But first let us introduce the reader to the locality itself.
Two miles out of the city of Lynn, in the heart of the secluded and romantic region overlooking it, is a hill high and steep, oue side of which is a naked precipice ; the other, which the road ascends, is still covered with a magnificent grove of oak-trees growing among enormous bowlders, and clad, when I saw them, ill the rags of their autumiiul purple. Few wilder or more picturesque spots can bo found among the White Hills; and here we are not a dozen miles removed from the homed of half a million people. The rumored existence of treasure right up in the heart of this cliff by the earthquake seems to have found credit in the neighborhood, if one may judge from the evidences of a heavy explosion is what was supposed to be the ancient vestibule of the cavern, where a yawning rent in the side of the ledge is blocked up with tons of massy Jehrit and every vestige of what was perhaps an interesting natural curiosity thus want only destroyed.
Under the direction of spirit mediums, the work of piercing Dungeon Rock was begun by Hiram Marble about thirty years ago, and has continued, with little intermission, nearly to the present time. For more than a quarter of a century,—spurred on, when they were ready to abandon the work in despair, by some delusive revelation of the spirits, — father and son toiled on in the vain hoping of unlocking its secret. Tons upon tons of the broken rock have been removed by their hands alone, for the windings of the gallery make any mechanical contrivance useless for the purpose. So hard is the natural formation, that they sometimes advanced only a foot in a month ; and the labor was further increased by the accumulation of water, which is constantly oozing from fissures of the rock. Death at length released the elder enthusiast from his infatuation; but the son pursued the work as the most sacred of trusts, until he too died in the same fatal delusion.
A woman whom I found in the cabin on the summit, and who proved to bo the treasure-seeker's sister, conducted me to the entrance of the shaft, which was closed by a grated door, above which I read this eminently practical legend in an unpractical place : "Ye who enter here, leave twenty-five cents behind." She turned the key in the lock, swung back tho grating, and we began to descend,  by a series of steps cut in tho rock, then by such foothold as the slippery floor afforded. When we arrived at the extreme limit of the excavation, wo had come not far from one hundred and fifty feet in a perpendicular descent of only forty; yet I remarked that the gallery at times almost doubled upon itself, in order to accomplish what might have been reached in half the distance, and, of course, with half the labor, in a direct line, — which would seem to imply that the work might have proceeded more expeditiously under the direction of a competent mining engineer. Nothing in the apperance of the rock indicated that it had been disturbed since the creation. It was as hard as adamant, as firm as marble, as impenetrable as Fate.
My guide pointed out the supposed locality of the ancient entrance. She aim showed no, of a thing to which the few duly entitled even such sceptics as myself, the fragment of a corroded scubbard, which had been found, she said, embedded in a cranny within the excavation. But when I afterward mentioned that circumstance to the poet Longfellow, who was familiar with the locality and its story, he laughed pleasantly, and said that unless his memory was greatly at fault, ho had seen, years before, during one of his drives in the neighborhood, this identical thing at a blacksmith's shop where he had stopped on some errand. Such questions as I asked were freely answered; but she talked in a way that was almost startling in its matter-of-fact assumption of the supernatural as the controlling clement in one's life experience. Tho invisible spirits of Dungeon Ruck I found dealt in enigmas which the Delphic oracle could never have surpassed; yet here were believers who staked their lives upon the truth of utterances equally delusive! Here the problem is suggestively presented, whether latter-day superstition, acting upon the weak and impressible nature, is on the whole to be preferred, either in its manifestations or results, to olden delusion as exemplified in the witches or wizards of our forefathers. So I shall say , at any rate, that I have found this visit to Dungeon Rock one of the most singular experiences of a lifetime.


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Great Story! Oro, do you know where in New England Lynns city is located?

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Pretty sure they are talking about Lynn City Essex County Massachusetts.

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FABLES   IN   AMERICA 1890

About two miles from Lvnn's city proper, and up a steep hill, therer is a large mass of rock, known far and wide as " The Pirate's Dungeon Cave." The writer and two friends, by a few cents each, were permitted to enter the" dark abyss, though our guide speedily lighted lanterns affixed on the rooky, damp walls, and carrying one in his hand, he introduced us to the explorations; and after the legend is given.

This is the " legend " which the narrator found in the little graph of the rock; eminence: ? a cave in this place, which was frequented by pirates. Since the great earthquake in 1658, which closed the original entrance, no vestige of the cave is discernible, and at that time a pirate, known as Thomas Veal, was imprisoned alive; hence the place ia called ' Pirate'a dungeon.' It's believed by many that treasures are secured here, and various attempts have been made to force an entrance to the cave. Some years ago renewed attempts were made to blow up the place, bnt succeeded only in displacing a mass of rocks. Subsequently Jesse Hutchinaon (one of the singing brothers), but he abandoned a labor so very expensive and laborious. Afterwards, Mr. Hiram Marble, under the guidance of clairvoyants and spiritual mediums, commenced the present excavations (about eight years since Mr. Hut chin son's yen-tare) ; he has penetrated into the solid rock to the distance of more than one hundred feet, making a passageway eight feet in diameter; he professed to be guided in his operations by the spirits of the pirates who occupied the cave, the predictions of the spirits in finding the cave and treasures, it will certainly be an irresistible evidence of the truth of Spiritualism ; but should he fail so to do, it will prove the the excavators." So much for the legend. But the writer was informed that it was as far back as 1861 when Mr. Hiram Marble, Ken., undertook this serous work for years, failed in his purpose, after spending thousands of dollars, and died, perhaps. broken-hearted. His son took up where his father left off ; excavated at great expense some feet further in tbe rock, found no treasure, and died comparatively a young man supposed full value.   Like Captain Kidd, the once buccaneer in ;i little 'inlet near "Stony Creek," Conn., called "Pot Island," but it was supposition only, as may be tbe ease of this dungeon pirates near Lynn.
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THE PIRATES'  GLEN.
THE year 1658 was signalized in New England by a great earthquake, which is mentioned in some of thu old chronicles. Connected with this convulsion, which in the olden time was regarded as a most signal mark of the displeasure of Heaven, is the following story. There are, it should be said, two or three circumstances, or rather facts, giving to this legend a color of authenticity, which are of themselves sufficient to create a doubt whether, after all, it has not a more substantial foundation than has generally been conceded to it. We willingly give it the benefit of this doubt; meanwhile contenting ourselves with the statement that its first appearance in print, so far as known to the writer, was in Lewis's " History of Lyne." But here is the legend in all its purity. Some time previous to the great earthquake, in the twilight of a pleasant evening on the coast, n small bark was seen to approach the shore, furl her sails, and drop her anchor near the mouth of Saugus River. A boat was presently lowered from her side, which four men got into and rowed silently up the river to where it enters the hills, when they landed, and plunged into the woods skirting the banks. These movements had been noticed by only a few individuals; but in those early times, when the people were surrounded by dangers and were easily alarmed, such an incident was well calculated to awaken suspicion, so that in the course of the evening the intelligence had spread from house to house, and many wcro the conjectures respecting the strangers' business. In the morning all eyes were naturally directed toward the shore, in search of the stranger-vessel: but she was no longer there, and no trace either of her or of her singular crew could be found. It was afterward learned, however, that on the morning of the vessel's disappearance a workman, upon going to his daily task at the Forge, on the river's bank, had found a paper running to the effect that if a certain quantity of shackles, handcuffs, and other articles named were made, and with secrecy deposited in a certain place in the woods, which was particularly described, no amount of silver equal to their full value would be found in their stead. The manacles were duly made and secreted, in conformity with the strange directions. On the following morning they had been taken away, and the money left according to the letter of thu promise; but notwithstanding the fact that a strict watch had been kept, no sign of a vessel could be discovered in the offing. Some months later than this event, which bod furnished a fruitful theme for the village gossips, the four men returned, and selected one of the most secluded and romantic spots in the woods of Saugus for their abode ; and the talc has been further embellished to the effect that the pirate chief brought with him a beautiful woman. The place of their retreat was a deep and narrow valley, shut in on two sides by craggy, precipitous rocks, and screened on the other by a thick growth of pines, hemlocks, and cedars. There was only one small spot to which the rays of the noonday sun could penetrate. Upon climbing tho rude and nearly perpendicular steep of the cliff on the eastern side of this glen, tho cyo commanded a noble expanse of sea stretching far to tho south, besides a wide extent of the surrounding country. No spot on the coast could have been better chosen for the double purpose of concealment and observation. Even at thin day, when the neighborhood has become thickly peopled, it is still a lonely and desolate place, whose gloomy recesses are comparatively unknown and unvisited. Here the pirates built themselves a small hut, made a garden, and dug a well, of which some traces still remain. It is supposed that they also buried money here, and search has been made for it at various times, but none has ever been found ; and to deepen the mystery, it is said that the pirate's mistress, who is described us very pale and beautiful, having sickened and died, was buried here in an unknown grave, under the thick shade of the pines. After a time the retreat of the pirates became noised about. They were traced to their glen. Three of them wore taken to England, ? there being at that time no law in the Colony to punish piracy, ? where it is supposed that they paid the penalty for their crimes upon the gib-Iwt. The third, whose name was Thomas Yeale, escaped to s cavern in the woods, which he and his confederates had previously made use of a place of deposit for their ill-gotten booty. In this lonely place the fugitive fixed his residence, practising the trade of a shoemaker, and occasionally visiting the village to obtain food, until the earthquake which ushered in tlio legend, splitting to its foundations the rock in which the cavern was situated, forever sealed the entrance, enclosing the doomed corsair in his frightful tomb. This cliff has ever since been known as Dungeon Rock, and the first retreat of the freebooters has always borne the name of The Pirates' Glen.
The sequel to the legend that we have so conscientiously related to the reader, is more striking by its reality, more incredible, one might almost say, than the legend itself is, with all its dramatic surroundings. The story of Dungeon Rock now leaves the realm of the legendary fur that of active supernatural agency ; and it may be doulitcd if thu whole world can produce another such example of the absorbing pursuit of an idea which has become the lixed and dominant impulse of a life. But first let us introduce the reader to the locality itself.
Two miles out of the city of Lynn, in the heart of the secluded and romantic region overlooking it, is a hill high and steep, oue side of which is a naked precipice ; the other, which the road ascends, is still covered with a magnificent grove of oak-trees growing among enormous bowlders, and clad, when I saw them, ill the rags of their autumiiul purple. Few wilder or more picturesque spots can bo found among the White Hills; and here we are not a dozen miles removed from the homed of half a million people. The rumored existence of treasure right up in the heart of this cliff by the earthquake seems to have found credit in the neighborhood, if one may judge from the evidences of a heavy explosion is what was supposed to be the ancient vestibule of the cavern, where a yawning rent in the side of the ledge is blocked up with tons of massy Jehrit and every vestige of what was perhaps an interesting natural curiosity thus want only destroyed.
Under the direction of spirit mediums, the work of piercing Dungeon Rock was begun by Hiram Marble about thirty years ago, and has continued, with little intermission, nearly to the present time. For more than a quarter of a century,?spurred on, when they were ready to abandon the work in despair, by some delusive revelation of the spirits, ? father and son toiled on in the vain hoping of unlocking its secret. Tons upon tons of the broken rock have been removed by their hands alone, for the windings of the gallery make any mechanical contrivance useless for the purpose. So hard is the natural formation, that they sometimes advanced only a foot in a month ; and the labor was further increased by the accumulation of water, which is constantly oozing from fissures of the rock. Death at length released the elder enthusiast from his infatuation; but the son pursued the work as the most sacred of trusts, until he too died in the same fatal delusion.
A woman whom I found in the cabin on the summit, and who proved to bo the treasure-seeker's sister, conducted me to the entrance of the shaft, which was closed by a grated door, above which I read this eminently practical legend in an unpractical place : "Ye who enter here, leave twenty-five cents behind." She turned the key in the lock, swung back tho grating, and we began to descend,  by a series of steps cut in tho rock, then by such foothold as the slippery floor afforded. When we arrived at the extreme limit of the excavation, wo had come not far from one hundred and fifty feet in a perpendicular descent of only forty; yet I remarked that the gallery at times almost doubled upon itself, in order to accomplish what might have been reached in half the distance, and, of course, with half the labor, in a direct line, ? which would seem to imply that the work might have proceeded more expeditiously under the direction of a competent mining engineer. Nothing in the apperance of the rock indicated that it had been disturbed since the creation. It was as hard as adamant, as firm as marble, as impenetrable as Fate.
My guide pointed out the supposed locality of the ancient entrance. She aim showed no, of a thing to which the few duly entitled even such sceptics as myself, the fragment of a corroded scubbard, which had been found, she said, embedded in a cranny within the excavation. But when I afterward mentioned that circumstance to the poet Longfellow, who was familiar with the locality and its story, he laughed pleasantly, and said that unless his memory was greatly at fault, ho had seen, years before, during one of his drives in the neighborhood, this identical thing at a blacksmith's shop where he had stopped on some errand. Such questions as I asked were freely answered; but she talked in a way that was almost startling in its matter-of-fact assumption of the supernatural as the controlling clement in one's life experience. Tho invisible spirits of Dungeon Ruck I found dealt in enigmas which the Delphic oracle could never have surpassed; yet here were believers who staked their lives upon the truth of utterances equally delusive! Here the problem is suggestively presented, whether latter-day superstition, acting upon the weak and impressible nature, is on the whole to be preferred, either in its manifestations or results, to olden delusion as exemplified in the witches or wizards of our forefathers. So I shall say , at any rate, that I have found this visit to Dungeon Rock one of the most singular experiences of a lifetime


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