. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. bill upon the pavement. This was to banishsleep altogether from the bed of sickness, or divide it intoperiods of semi-consciousness for the more robust. Well can weimagine the drowsy guardian, lurking in some dark passage ornarrow lane, shouting with stentorian lungs his sleep-destroyingwatch-cry under the stars, and startling a whole neighborlioodfrom its slumbers. Like the Scot, he murdered sleep; likehim, he should have been condemned to sleep no more. Dr. Bentley, of Salem, who perhaps had a watchman nightlyposted under his window, pertinently i
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. bill upon the pavement. This was to banishsleep altogether from the bed of sickness, or divide it intoperiods of semi-consciousness for the more robust. Well can weimagine the drowsy guardian, lurking in some dark passage ornarrow lane, shouting with stentorian lungs his sleep-destroyingwatch-cry under the stars, and startling a whole neighborlioodfrom its slumbers. Like the Scot, he murdered sleep; likehim, he should have been condemned to sleep no more. Dr. Bentley, of Salem, who perhaps had a watchman nightlyposted under his window, pertinently inquired through a news-paper if it Avould not be better to cry out when all Avas not well,and let well enough alone. Charlestown has given to the world some eminent publiccharacters. Earliest among these is John Harvard, the patronof the college that bears his name. He was admitted a free-man with promise of such accommodations as we best can,in 1637, but died the following year, leaving half his estate for THE GATEWAY OF OLD MIDDLESEX. 11. HARVARD S MONUMENT. the use of the infant school of learning. He also left his li-brary of more than three hundred volumes to the College, andhas a simple granite shaft, erected to his memory on BurialHill, in Charles-town, by thegraduates of theUniversity heaided to Everettdelivered the ad-dress on the oc-casion of the ded-ication. Theeastern f^ice ofthe monument,besides the nameof John Harvard,bears the follow-ing inscription. On the 26th of September, a. d. 1828, this stone was erected bythe graduates of the University at Cambridge, in honor of itsfounder, who died at Charlestown on the 26th of September,1638. The western front bears a Latin inscription, recognizing thatone who had laid the corner-stone of letters in America shouldno longer be Avithout a monument, however humble. Thismemorial, which was raised nearly two hundred years after thedecease of Harvard, rests on a supposititious site, his burial-placehaving been for
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