Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . ms, comprising the shoe making, whip making, cab-inet making, stone cutting, blacksmithing, upholstering, andother departments, generally pleases the visitor, and callsforth encomiums for the stillness, order, and cleanlinessobserved. / The Monument erected to the memory of John Har- / vard is situated on the top of the hill in the old graveyard 1 near the state prison, in Charlestown. It was erected by I the subscriptions of the graduates of Harvard University. It is constructed of granite, in a solid shaft of fifteen feet elevation,
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . ms, comprising the shoe making, whip making, cab-inet making, stone cutting, blacksmithing, upholstering, andother departments, generally pleases the visitor, and callsforth encomiums for the stillness, order, and cleanlinessobserved. / The Monument erected to the memory of John Har- / vard is situated on the top of the hill in the old graveyard 1 near the state prison, in Charlestown. It was erected by I the subscriptions of the graduates of Harvard University. It is constructed of granite, in a solid shaft of fifteen feet elevation, and in the simplest style of ancient art. On the eastern face of the shaft the name of John Harvard 164 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. is inscribed; also on a marble tablet the following: Onthe 26th of September, A. D. 1828, this stone was erectedby the graduates of the university at Cambridge, in honorof its founder, who died at Charlestown on the 26th ofSeptember, 1638. On the western side of the shaft is aninscription in Latin, of the following purport: il That one. who merits so much from our literary men should nolonger be without a monument, however humble, thegraduates of the University of Cambridge, New England,have erected this stone, nearly two hundred years afterhis death, in pious and perpetual remembrance of John HARVARD MONUMENT. 165 Harvard. At the erection of this monument, the Everett, who is considered one of the most ac-complished scholars educated at Harvard College, deliv-ered an appropriate and eloquent address.
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