Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . plished Baroness Riedesel. It is an interesting memento,and preserved with great eare. Near the westerly eorner of the Common, upon Wash-ington Street, stands the Washington Elm, one of theancient anakim of the primeval forest, older, probably, byhalf a century or moi-e, than the welcome of Samoset tothe white settlers, and is distinguished by the circumstancethat beneath its broad shadow Gineral Washington first18* 210 BOSTON AND VICINITY. drew his SAVorJ as commuiidLr-in-chkt ol the contiueutalarmy, on the morning of July 3d, iS
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . plished Baroness Riedesel. It is an interesting memento,and preserved with great eare. Near the westerly eorner of the Common, upon Wash-ington Street, stands the Washington Elm, one of theancient anakim of the primeval forest, older, probably, byhalf a century or moi-e, than the welcome of Samoset tothe white settlers, and is distinguished by the circumstancethat beneath its broad shadow Gineral Washington first18* 210 BOSTON AND VICINITY. drew his SAVorJ as commuiidLr-in-chkt ol the contiueutalarmy, on the morning of July 3d, iS^ot far fromhere Avas the spot where public town meetings were held,and also the tree under which the Indian council fireswere lighted more than two hundred years ago. When. the drum was used in Cambridge, instead of the bell, tosummon the congregntion to the ])lace of worship, orto give warning of a savagi. enemy, tlie sound floatedthroughout those trailing limbs, that, eould they but speak,would take a veterans delight in telling of the past. Mayno unkind hand mar the last tree of the native forest. HUSTON AND VKIM IV. 21 i Though it may have stood century alter century, like asentinel on duty, def) ing the lightning and tlie storm, stilllet it stand, an interesting and sacred memorial of the}iast and the present, and continue to be associated, formany years to come, Avilh the history of our let the illustrious name whicli it bears, and which itdei-ives from one of the most important events in the lifeof the father of his country, preserve it to remind thecoming generations of his invaluable services and labors. Mount Aluijrn. — The cemetery of Mount Auburn,justly celebrated as the most interesting object of the kindin our country, is situ
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