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Title: Alumnae Recorder
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Female College Alumnae Association
Subjects: Chatham University--Alumni and alumnae--Periodicals
Publisher: Pennsylvania Female College Pennsylvania College for Women
Contributing Library: Chatham University, Jennie King Mellon Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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n the verybosom of the deep. I no longer regretted the barge. To right of us, toleft of us rolled the illimitable sea, calm and beautiful, glistening in theclear sunshine of this Indian summer day, with only here and there alittle white cap, just enough to hint at the cruel depths and mercilesspower below. What life and vigor in that first whiff of the salt air.What comfort in the soft caressing of the sunshine. What a sense offreedom and exhilaration in this strange journey across the sea ! If you look at the map you will see that Nahant is the very outermostpoint of a little peninsula, while Lynn is just where the peninsula joinsthe mainland. But, on second thoughts, donH look at the map. Mapsare always very prosaic, and often very misleading, too. And certainlyin this instance no geographical definition or diagram could give youany adequate idea of the cave. For nearly a mile after leaving Lynnthe road runs along the merest neck of land, with the water coming up 40 ALUMNA RECORDER.
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ALUMNA RECORDER. 41 on each side almost to the horses feet. I have never seen a more de-lightful provision of nature or device of man than that long causeway,isthmus—call it what you please. I suppose it must be an isthmus, butwhen, in my early childhood, I struggled on that difficult definition—aneck of land joining a peninsula to a continent or two parts of a continent orof an island together. I had no idea what a beautiful and entrancing thingan isthmus was. We had all the advantages of being out at sea with-out any of its undesirable drawbacks. Sometimes the isthmus widened,and we had quite an expanse of scrubby grass and pebbly beach oneither side, but in many places there was only a very little space be-tween us and the water, and looking out of the barge we could quiteignore the road and imagine ourselves floating along upon the surface ofthe sea. Although I for one indulged in no such imagination, and wasdevoutly thankful that we were on land and that there was a good,smoo

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