Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . yby rail or country road, procure them large numbers ofvisitors during the pleasant months of the year. Bostonand its environs abound in mementoes of the revolution-ary dead; Bunker Hill rises, a sanctified spot forever;the heights are not yet levelled which once bristled withWashingtons cannon, and hastened the evacuation of thetown by the British; and here at Lexington and Concordis the soil that drank the very first blood of the martyrsof liberty — a soil on which the first armed resistance toaggression was attempted. Lexington is a
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . yby rail or country road, procure them large numbers ofvisitors during the pleasant months of the year. Bostonand its environs abound in mementoes of the revolution-ary dead; Bunker Hill rises, a sanctified spot forever;the heights are not yet levelled which once bristled withWashingtons cannon, and hastened the evacuation of thetown by the British; and here at Lexington and Concordis the soil that drank the very first blood of the martyrsof liberty — a soil on which the first armed resistance toaggression was attempted. Lexington is a very pretty place, and since the estab-lishment of the branch railroad connecting it with Boston,many of our citizens have availed themselves of the op-portunity of residing in the old historic town. Its area (172) LEXINGTON. 173 comprises a great variety of scenery, and the soil is notungrateful for the care of the husbandman. The town isbuilt principally on a broad street, and in about the centreof it is the green on which the monument stands. It is. built of granite, and has a marble tablet on the south rrontof the pedestal, with the following inscription: — Sacred to the Liberty and the Rights of Mankind!!! The Freedomand Independence of America — sealed and defended with the blood ofher sons. This Monument is erected by the Inhabitants of Lexington,under the patronage and at the expense of the Commonwealth of Mas-sachusetts, to the memory of their Fellow-citizen^, Ensign Robert Mon- 15* 174 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. roe, Messrs. Jonas Parker, Samuel Hadley, Jonathan Harrington, jun.,Isaac Muzzy, Caleb Harrington, and John Brown, of Lexington, andAsahel Porter, of Woburn, who fell on this Field, the first victims ofthe Sword of British Tyranny and Oppression, on the morning of theever-memorable Nineteenth of April, An. Dom. 1775. The Die wascast!! ! The blood of these Martyrs in the Cause of God and theirCountry was the Cement of the Union of these States, then Colonies,and g
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