. Book of the Royal blue . rounding country has notchanged materially, and the visitor withactive imagination loses nothing by reasonof the curtailment of the plantation. When the steamers landed their passen-gers at Mount Vernon at stated hours thesuperintendent and his assistants had a com-paratively easy time. They knew just howlong the visitors could remain, and made Carrara marble in the banquet hall with-out anathematizing the whole race of relichunters. This exquisite work has beenmutilated in the most outrageous way bypeople who undoubtedly would resent thecharge that they are worse th
. Book of the Royal blue . rounding country has notchanged materially, and the visitor withactive imagination loses nothing by reasonof the curtailment of the plantation. When the steamers landed their passen-gers at Mount Vernon at stated hours thesuperintendent and his assistants had a com-paratively easy time. They knew just howlong the visitors could remain, and made Carrara marble in the banquet hall with-out anathematizing the whole race of relichunters. This exquisite work has beenmutilated in the most outrageous way bypeople who undoubtedly would resent thecharge that they are worse than thieves. One may walk a few steps to the oldnorth entrance proper, near the four gianttrees planted by Washington himself, orfollow a well kept road around to the westentrance, which was used by the formeroccupants of the mansion. There is anarched gateway, and passing through itthe visitor finds himself in the curvedcourse which incloses the west lawn, whichWashington was wont to call his bowling THE AMERICAN MECCA. 15. w WASHINGTONS TOMB. green. From this point is secured thetine view of the mansion which the guide-books have made familiar. The curvedcourse is over half a mile in circumference,and in the old days many a gay partygalloped over it. Magnificent trees line it. Tradition hasit that all of them were selected and manyplanted by Washington. There are poplars,gums, aspens, lindens, beeches, pines,mimosas, wild cherries, Spanish chestnutsand hickories. The vegetable garden ison the right as one faces the mansion; theflower garden on the left. The former isunattractive enough these days. The latterabounds with box figures and old fashionedflowers. On a summer day it is a beautifulspot. No matter how often one has visitedthe place it is always interesting. Anindescribable interest possesses one as hewanders through halls and rooms wherewalked, slept, ate and drank the greatcentral figure in the stirring events fromwhich our nationality was evolved. Stand-ing in Martha
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