. Highways and byways of the South. ttleglens, whether you look off across the water or backtoward the village are unfailingly piquant and pleasing. Before the Revolution, Yorktown was the chief portof Virginia, and several vessels loaded with tobaccowere every year despatched thence across the for more than a century the population has beengradually dwindling until now it aggregates only twohundred and thirty eight, and three-fourths of thissmall number are negroes. On the farther edge of the village stands an impos-ing national monument commemorating the surrenderof Cornwallis.
. Highways and byways of the South. ttleglens, whether you look off across the water or backtoward the village are unfailingly piquant and pleasing. Before the Revolution, Yorktown was the chief portof Virginia, and several vessels loaded with tobaccowere every year despatched thence across the for more than a century the population has beengradually dwindling until now it aggregates only twohundred and thirty eight, and three-fourths of thissmall number are negroes. On the farther edge of the village stands an impos-ing national monument commemorating the surrenderof Cornwallis. The monument was finished com-paratively recently; for though its erection was in pur-suance of a resolution of Congress adopted October 29,1781, ten days after the surrender, actual work was notbegun on it until about one hundred years later. Thememorial is fenced in by rude wooden palings that arehalf broken away so that the wandering cattle feed atthe very foot of the lofty marble column. Indeed, as Round about Old Jamestown 3^5. Yorktown Street I walked around the shaft, I nearly fell over a calmlyruminating cow lying in its shadow. Not far away isa fragment of an embankment that is pointed out asbelonging to the time of the famous siege, and this isall that is left of the British fortifications. The otherearthworks upheaving in great grassy ridges aroundthe village belong to the Civil War. They are verypeaceful now and are much overgrown with a lowaromatic herb from which ones footfalls set free pun-gent and agreeable odors. The siege of Yorktown was not of long British were cooped up there scarcely two months,and the bonds were not at all tightly drawn until 3i6 Highways and Byways of the South toward the end. The bombardment lasted only eightdays, but it was at close quarters and wrought greathavoc. All the town buildings were more or lessdamaged, and the house which was at first Cornwallissheadquarters was battered to pieces. He removed tothe handsome brick
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