. Ben Hardin: his times and contemporaries, with selections from his speeches. tal. The cemetery is situated on a slightly undulatingplateau, on Kentucky river, where the shore springs abruptly severalhundred feet above its limpid waters. If the field of Macpelah,which Abraham bought for a burying-place. was anything like it. theanxiety of Jacob not to be buried in the sands or catacombs of Egypt * Kentucky—a Pioneer Commonwealth, by Professor X. S. Shaler, Chapter XL. % Dean Stanley. 6i6 BEX HARDIN. was, no doubt, heightened by recalling the soul-comforting peacethat lingered around the tomb
. Ben Hardin: his times and contemporaries, with selections from his speeches. tal. The cemetery is situated on a slightly undulatingplateau, on Kentucky river, where the shore springs abruptly severalhundred feet above its limpid waters. If the field of Macpelah,which Abraham bought for a burying-place. was anything like it. theanxiety of Jacob not to be buried in the sands or catacombs of Egypt * Kentucky—a Pioneer Commonwealth, by Professor X. S. Shaler, Chapter XL. % Dean Stanley. 6i6 BEX HARDIN. was, no doubt, heightened by recalling the soul-comforting peacethat lingered around the tomb of his fathers. Overlooking theriver and the little city below, and in view of picturesque hills beyond(not unlike those bordering the valley of Hebron), yet these sightsseem far away, and the blue heaven above, somewhat closer by !From Boone, the pioneer, to Hart, the sculptor, is a long and illus-trious roll of Kentuckians that will be called among men until theAnglo-Saxon race and all it has achieved—like prehistoric man—shallbe blotted from the chronicles of mm^*^ Boones Grave. APPENDIX. APPENDIX. NOTE A, PAGE 4 GRANT FROM LORD FAIRFAX TO MARTIN HARDIN IN 174 (NOTE I. ) The Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, in that part ofGreat Britain called Scotland, Proprietor of the Northern Necl f Virginia: To all towhom this present Writing shall came, Lends Greeting. Know Ye that li .uise- for and in Consideration of the Composition to the paid and for the annual Rent after reserved, I have given, granted, and confirmed, And by these presents for nit-, myHeirs and Assigns, do Give, Grant, and Confirm unto Martin Hardin, of the CoutiPrince William, a certain Tract of Waste and ungranted Land, lying in theGn iof the Rappahannock River, Orange County, and is Bounded according to a Surveythereof made by Mr. George Hume, as followeth : Beginning at a large Hickory andRed Oak Corner in a Line of Colonel Francis Thornton, and runs thence with the saidThornt
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