Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . oms, comjirising the i-lioc making, whip making, cab-inet making, stone cutting, black?mithing, upholstering, andother departments, generally pleases the visitor, and callsforth encomiums for the stillness, order, and cleanlinessobserved. The MoNiMEXT erected to the memory of John Har-vard is situated on the top of the hill in the old graveyardnear the state prison, in Charlesto\\Ti. It was erected bythe subscriptions of the graduates of Harvard is :tnicted of granite, in a solid shaft of fifteen feetelevation, and in
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . oms, comjirising the i-lioc making, whip making, cab-inet making, stone cutting, black?mithing, upholstering, andother departments, generally pleases the visitor, and callsforth encomiums for the stillness, order, and cleanlinessobserved. The MoNiMEXT erected to the memory of John Har-vard is situated on the top of the hill in the old graveyardnear the state prison, in Charlesto\\Ti. It was erected bythe subscriptions of the graduates of Harvard is :tnicted of granite, in a solid shaft of fifteen feetelevation, and in the simplest style of ancient art. Onthe eastern lace of the shaft the name of John Harvard BOSTON AND VICINITV. 231 is inscribed; also on a marble tablet the following: Onthe 26th of September, A. D. 1828, this stone was erectedby the graduates of the university at Cambridge, in honorof its founder, who died at Charlestown on the 2Gth ofS(j)teinb(r, 1 ( On the western side of the shaft is aninscription in Latin, of the following purport: That one. who merits so much from our literary men should nolonger be without a monument, however humble, thegraduates of the University of Cambridge, New England,have erected this stone, nearly two hundred years afterhis death, in pious and perpetual remembrance of John iiJ BOSTON AND VKJINITV. Harvard. At the erection of this monument, the I^veiett, who is considered one of tlie most ac-com}) scholars educated at Harvard CoHege, dehv-ered an appropriate and eloquent address.
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