Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . curious to trace the old outline : Take a northeast view of the Hall, — there are seven win-dows before you in each story, — run a perpendicular line, fromthe ground, through the centre of the middle window to thetop of the belt, at the bottom of the third story, carry astraight line from that point nearly to the top of the secondwindow, on the right, in the third story. That point is theapex of the old pediment. From that point draw the corre-sponding roof-line down to the belt, at the corner; and youhave a profile of the ancient structure. A
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . curious to trace the old outline : Take a northeast view of the Hall, — there are seven win-dows before you in each story, — run a perpendicular line, fromthe ground, through the centre of the middle window to thetop of the belt, at the bottom of the third story, carry astraight line from that point nearly to the top of the secondwindow, on the right, in the third story. That point is theapex of the old pediment. From that point draw the corre-sponding roof-line down to the belt, at the corner; and youhave a profile of the ancient structure. A grasshopper, which still decorates the vane, made by thatcunning artificer Deacon Shem Drowne, was long thought to bethe crest of the Faneuils; especially as a similar insect adornedthe vane of the summer-house in Tremont Street. But the armswere extant not many years ago on some of Peter Faneuilsplate, in the possession of his descendants, and disproved tinstheory. No better reason has been assigned for the adoption 136 LANDMARKS OF NEW FANEUIL HALL, WITH QUINCY MARKET. of the grasshopper than that it was an imitation of the vaneof the Royal Exchange, London. Curiously enough, the first public oration delivered in FaneuilHall was a funeral eulogy, pronounced on the death of PeterFaneuil, March 14, 1743, by Master Lovell of the Latin the course of his address the orator said, May Libertyalways spread its joyful wings over this place. May Loyaltyto a king under whom we enjoy that Liberty ever remain ourcharacter. Master Lovell, himself a tory fugitive when Bostonwas freed from the British occupation, did not dream of the ful-filment of his wish — divested of its dependence on a king —when he uttered it. Faneuil Hall was illuminated, by a vote of the town, on thenews of the repeal of the Stamp Act, and the selectmen wererequested to make provision for drinking the kings the winter of 1775-76 the British officers, under thepatronage of Gene
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