. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . elonging to some for-mer day and generation; extensive gaidens, farms, andorchards, evidently of no modern date; and trees whosegiant forms were the growth of years gone by. Whobuilt these stately mansions, so unHke the usual New Eng-land dwellings of ancient days, with their spacious lawns,shaded by noble elms, and adorned with shrubbery ? TVhowere the proprietors of these elegant seats, which arrestthe attention and charm the eye of the passing traveller ?Who were the original occupants of these abodes of aris-tocratic pride and wea
. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . elonging to some for-mer day and generation; extensive gaidens, farms, andorchards, evidently of no modern date; and trees whosegiant forms were the growth of years gone by. Whobuilt these stately mansions, so unHke the usual New Eng-land dwellings of ancient days, with their spacious lawns,shaded by noble elms, and adorned with shrubbery ? TVhowere the proprietors of these elegant seats, which arrestthe attention and charm the eye of the passing traveller ?Who were the original occupants of these abodes of aris-tocratic pride and wealth, — for such they must have been, 140 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. — and whose voices waked the echoes in these lofty halls ?A race of men which has passed away forever! They aregone. Their tombs are in a distant land; even theirnames have passed from remembrance ; and nought re-mains to tell of their sojourn here save these stately piles,whose walls once echoed to the sound of pipe and harp,and whose courts reverberated with the notes of theirnational Prominent among these residences of the royahsts ofolden time is that of Colonel John Yassall, which becamein July, 1775, the head quarters of General Washington; CAMBRIDGE. 141 an edifice even more elegant and spacious than its fellows,standing in the midst of shrubbery and stately elms, ahttle distance from the street, once the highway from Har-vard University to Waltham. At this mansion, and atWinter Hill, Washington passed most of his time aftertaking command of the continental aimy, until the evacu-ation of Boston in the following spring. Its presentowner is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, widely knownin the world of literature as one of the most gifted menof the age. It is a spot worthy of the residence of anAmerican bard so endowed, for the associations whichhallow it are linked with the noblest themes that everawakened the inspiration of a child of song. This mansion stands upon the upper of two terraces,which are ascende
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