The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ode on theLanding of the Pilgrim Fathers,the modern Pilgrim turned withrenewed interest, as he left Pil-grim Hall, to the contemplationof its historic corner-stone. Ply-mouth Rock was not built intothe wall of Pilgrim Hall as theblack stone which the angelGabriel brought to Abraham isbuilt into the wall of the Caaba at Mecca. Plymouth Rock used to lie uponthe ground, in front of the steps leading to the Hall. The sacred relic wasinclosed w7ithin a heavy railing of upright iron bars, the tops of which weremade to resemble boat-hooks and
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ode on theLanding of the Pilgrim Fathers,the modern Pilgrim turned withrenewed interest, as he left Pil-grim Hall, to the contemplationof its historic corner-stone. Ply-mouth Rock was not built intothe wall of Pilgrim Hall as theblack stone which the angelGabriel brought to Abraham isbuilt into the wall of the Caaba at Mecca. Plymouth Rock used to lie uponthe ground, in front of the steps leading to the Hall. The sacred relic wasinclosed w7ithin a heavy railing of upright iron bars, the tops of which weremade to resemble boat-hooks and harpoons, presumably in commemorationof Plymouth fisheries. Around the bars hung a funereal festoon of cast-iron drapery, bearing the names of the forty-one men who signed the Pil-grims Compact in Cape Cod Harbor. Provincetown and Plymouth werethus linked together, but why was the rock divided—why was it separatedfrom the place where the Pilgrims landed ? The modern Pilgrim, musingupon the strange displacement of an historic monument from its historic. PLYMOUTH ROCK AS IT WAS. 46 PLYMOUTH ROCK RESTORED base, invariably wandered down to the shore of the sea and tried to planthis feet upon the place where the top of the Rock ought to have been. The Pilgrim Society, moved by the growing interest in the originalbasis of Plymouth Rock and in the spot where the Pilgrims actually landed,resolved, in the year 1850, that it is expedient to erect a monument uponor near the rock on which the Pilgrims landed, and to make other improve-ments in its vicinity. Although it had been the intention of the PilgrimSociety, from its very organization in 1820, to erect a monument to thememory of the Pilgrims, yet, until this vote in 1850, no active, definitemeasures were taken to that end, beyond the erection of Pilgrim Hall andthe collection of Pilgrim relics. The above vote, after protracted negotia-tions with architects, led to the formation of a double plan for commemo-rating the landing of the
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