Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . Lin OP?Washingtons coffin. a caffe. AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 843. vvasuingions tomu. hill, on the edge of a deep wooded glen that extends to theriver, and throngli which flows a choked hrook. The spacious vault is built of brick, with an arched is entirely overgrown with shrubbery, brambles and vines,which gives it an antiquated appearance. Its iron door isentered from the spacious vestibule ; and over it, upon a stonepanel, are the words : • I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THK LIFE ; HE THAT BKLIEVETII IN MK, THOUGH HE
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . Lin OP?Washingtons coffin. a caffe. AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 843. vvasuingions tomu. hill, on the edge of a deep wooded glen that extends to theriver, and throngli which flows a choked hrook. The spacious vault is built of brick, with an arched is entirely overgrown with shrubbery, brambles and vines,which gives it an antiquated appearance. Its iron door isentered from the spacious vestibule ; and over it, upon a stonepanel, are the words : • I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THK LIFE ; HE THAT BKLIEVETII IN MK, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YKT SHALL HE LIVE ! I The vestibule is also built of brick, and is twelve feet inheight. The iron picketed gateway, through which the mar-ble sarcophagi may be seen, is flanked by two brick pilas- 344 MOUNT VERNON ters, saruiouuted by a stone coping, wliicli covers a gotliicarch. Over this arch is a white marble tablet inscribed— WITHIN THIS ENCLOSURE KEST THE EEMAINS OFGENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON. On the east side of the tomb, beneath marble monuments,lie the remains of Eleanor Parke Lewis and her daughter, E.
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