Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . linked with the noblest themes that everawakened the inspiration of a child of ^onG. This mansion stands upon the npjx^r of two terraces,which are ascended each by five stone steps. At eachfront corner of the house is a lofty elm, mere saplingswhen Washington beheld them, but now stately and patri-archal in appearance. Other elms, with flowers and shrub-bery, beautify the grounds around it; wiiile within, icono-clastic innovation has not been allowed to enter with itsmallet and trowel, to mar the work of the ancient builder,and to cover
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . linked with the noblest themes that everawakened the inspiration of a child of ^onG. This mansion stands upon the npjx^r of two terraces,which are ascended each by five stone steps. At eachfront corner of the house is a lofty elm, mere saplingswhen Washington beheld them, but now stately and patri-archal in appearance. Other elms, with flowers and shrub-bery, beautify the grounds around it; wiiile within, icono-clastic innovation has not been allowed to enter with itsmallet and trowel, to mar the work of the ancient builder,and to cover with the vulgar stucco of modern art thecarved cornices and panelled w^ainscots that first enriched it. A few rods above the residence of Professor Lonjrfel- BOSTON AND VICINITY. 209 Icnv is ihe house in which the Biimswick general, theIjarox Riedksel, and his family were quartered, duringtlie stay of the captive army of Burgoyne in the vicinityof Boston. Upon a window pane on the north side of thehouse may be seen the undoubted autograph of the accom-. plished Baroness Riedesel. It is an interesting memento,and preserved with great eare. Near the westerly eorner of the Common, upon Wash-ington Street, stands the Washington Elm, one of theancient anakim of the primeval forest, older, probably, byhalf a century or moi-e, than the welcome of Samoset tothe white settlers, and is distinguished by the circumstancethat beneath its broad shadow Gineral Washington first18* 210 BOSTON AND VICINITY. drew his SAVorJ as commuiidLr-in-chkt ol the contiueutalarmy, on the morning of July 3d, iS^ot far fromhere Avas the spot where public town meetings were held,and also the tree under which the Indian council fireswere lighted more than two hundred years ago. When
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