A history of Virginia for boys and girls . From there it was carried to Har- THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY 83 vard and Yale, and so it grew as the decadespassed. The original minute book of the societymay still be seen in the library of William andMary College. As one walks down Duke of Gloucester Streetfrom the college towards the place where the oldcapitol stood in the days of Washington, Henry,and Jefferson, he passesmany historic he comes to Bru-ton Church, on the left-hand side. In it is thefont from which it is saidPocahontas was bap-tized. A little fartherback from the st
A history of Virginia for boys and girls . From there it was carried to Har- THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY 83 vard and Yale, and so it grew as the decadespassed. The original minute book of the societymay still be seen in the library of William andMary College. As one walks down Duke of Gloucester Streetfrom the college towards the place where the oldcapitol stood in the days of Washington, Henry,and Jefferson, he passesmany historic he comes to Bru-ton Church, on the left-hand side. In it is thefont from which it is saidPocahontas was bap-tized. A little fartherback from the street isthe Wythe House, theold home of GeorgeWythe, the great teacherof law. Wythe County,Virginia, was named forhim. On a little farther,on the same side of the street, is the old courthouse ; and almost opposite, on the right-hand sideof the street, is the historic powder horn. This isa queer brick structure, having eight sides and ahigh pointed roof. It was the center of somestirring events at the beginning of the Revolu-tionary THE HISTORIC POWDER HORN AT WIL-LIAMSBURG. IN IT THE POWDERBELONGING TO THE COLONY WASSTORED 84 A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA Almost at the east end of Duke of GloucesterStreet, on the left-hand side, is the place whereRaleigh Tavern used to stand. In that old tavernmany important meetings were held in olden daysby men who were famous or later became then, as one comes to the end of the widestreet, he sees in front of him the heavy stonewhich marks the spot where the old capitol stood,in which the House of Burgesses met for nearlyeighty years, and ia which Patrick Henry deliveredhis Caesar-Brutus speech. Of this we shallhear again. One other house, a quaint little cottage, we mustnot overlook in Williamsburg. Far and wideit is known as the **Audrey House. It is one ofthe places that Miss Mary Johnston had in mindwhen she wrote her well-know^n book, Audrey,a romance of colonial Virginia. In front of the Audrey House is the PalaceGreen ; and near
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