Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . )assed under the roof wlierc hefirst saw the light; for fire destroyed the house, and his fatherremoved to an estate in Stafford county, near Fredericksburg;,and dwelt in an equally plain mansion, pleasantly seated nearthe north bank of the Rappahannock RESIDENCE OF THE WASHINGTON FAMILY. Of the birth-place of Washington nothing now remains buta chimney and a few scattered bricks and stones; and aroundit, where the smiles of highest culture were once seen, there isan aspect of desolation that makes the heart fe
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . )assed under the roof wlierc hefirst saw the light; for fire destroyed the house, and his fatherremoved to an estate in Stafford county, near Fredericksburg;,and dwelt in an equally plain mansion, pleasantly seated nearthe north bank of the Rappahannock RESIDENCE OF THE WASHINGTON FAMILY. Of the birth-place of Washington nothing now remains buta chimney and a few scattered bricks and stones; and aroundit, where the smiles of highest culture were once seen, there isan aspect of desolation that makes the heart feel sad. Somedecayed fig-trees and tangled shrubs and Sines, with here andthere a pine and cedar sapling, tell, with silent eloquence, ofneglect and ruin, and that decay has laid its blighting fingers 22 MOUNT VERNON upon every work of man tlicre. Tlic vault of the Wasliingtonfamily, vrlierein many were buried, is so neglected that someof the remains exposed to view have been carried away byplunderers. All around it are stunted trees, shrubs, andbriers; and near it may be seen fragments of slabs once setup in commemoration of some of that honored family. SJSte—
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