Handbook of old Burial Hill, Plymouth, MassachusettsIts history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs . ished there,in the days of Plymouths maritime glory. Hereare to be seen the rude symbols of the sculptors artand the crude effusions of the elegiac poet. Burial Hill is 165 feet above the sea level, andrises abruptly just back of the towns busiest thor-oughfare. It is irregular in form and contains abouteight acres. From this elevation the visitor has asplendid panorama of ocean and country. Nestlingat his feet, between the hill and the sea, are thethickly clustering roofs of the old tow
Handbook of old Burial Hill, Plymouth, MassachusettsIts history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs . ished there,in the days of Plymouths maritime glory. Hereare to be seen the rude symbols of the sculptors artand the crude effusions of the elegiac poet. Burial Hill is 165 feet above the sea level, andrises abruptly just back of the towns busiest thor-oughfare. It is irregular in form and contains abouteight acres. From this elevation the visitor has asplendid panorama of ocean and country. Nestlingat his feet, between the hill and the sea, are thethickly clustering roofs of the old town. Turninghis eyes northward, he sees in the far distance thevillages of Kingston and Duxbury and the monumenton Captains Hill, erected in memory of Myles Stand- ish, the doughty Pilgrim commander. To the weststretches a rolling swell of hills, ending in an alm,ostunbroken forest, through whose shades Massasoit ledhis warriors to meet the Plymouth colonists. Onthe south, shrouded in purple mist, are the PineHills of Manomet. Looking eastward, across thebay he spies the green dot known as Clarks Island,. CLARKS ISLAND. ~7 -_. where the Pilgrims spent their first Sabbath ; and farbeyond the shining strand of Plymouth Beach, if theday be clear and his vision keen, he can just discernProvincetown, at the point of Cape Cod,^—the tipend of Yankee-land. Visited as it is daily by tourists from all parts ofthe world, it is fitting that this consecrated groundshould be well cared for and that its surroundingsshould be somewhat in keeping with its historiccharacter. By the will of J. Henry Stickney ofBaltimore, late vice-president of the Pilgrim Society,$10,000 is bequeathed for improvements on thisground. It has been suggested that the legacy be 6 used in removing some, at least, of the unsightlybuildings which skirt the foot of the hill on theeasterly side, and in the erection of an ornamentalgateway at the Town Square entrance. There are several ways of approaching Burial Hill,but th
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