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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: old - older by far than any of the communities within thirty miles
of it. South of the village one may still spy the cellar walls
and chimney of the ancient Bishop house, which was built before
1700; whilst the ruins of the mill at the falls, built in 1806,
form the most modern piece of architecture to be seen. Industry
did not flourish here, and the nineteenth-century factory movement
proved short-lived. Oldest of all are the great rings of rough-hewn
stone columns on the hilltops, but these are more generally attributed
to the Indians than to the settlers. Deposits of skulls and bones,
found within these circles and around the sizeable table-like
rock on Sentinel Hill, sustain the popular belief that such spots
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