The illustrated London news . The Swan Tavern, stillcrowd,d \\\<.k , is ,: but the buildingshare of interest is the old !which our View was taken), the family residenceof the Nelsons, who emigrated from Cumberland,occupied a high standing in the county of York,and were the ancestors of all the Nelsons inVirginia. Duringthe revolutionary war, when this car- S ..???,;; ||, ].,y [ America, Lord) the Nelson House his head-quarters until one day, whilst his Lordship was at by ;. - !LK-ii-L-i| ..Lien ? !a,.aed through the this unwelcome visitor OorawaU
The illustrated London news . The Swan Tavern, stillcrowd,d \\\<.k , is ,: but the buildingshare of interest is the old !which our View was taken), the family residenceof the Nelsons, who emigrated from Cumberland,occupied a high standing in the county of York,and were the ancestors of all the Nelsons inVirginia. Duringthe revolutionary war, when this car- S ..???,;; ||, ].,y [ America, Lord) the Nelson House his head-quarters until one day, whilst his Lordship was at by ;. - !LK-ii-L-i| ..Lien ? !a,.aed through the this unwelcome visitor OorawaUis removed Two or three months ago the quiet and unoffend-ing citizens of Yorktown were pursuing theirpeaceful avocations when a couple of war-steamers appeared (el ilic shore, and several i\ balls came flying through the air, without, however,. doing any and departed for safer who forthwith pueked up which is now one vast military encampment. Thereis a long line of camps on the ridge of the highriver banks, another in an open space of the woods be-yond, and a third is down on the shore; behind yon, around you, which ever way you turn, the pointedtents dart up in bright r- ii- ; b,.-u-, ..),.. i,,-, ...,i ,,.,,.,-and blue line of distant coast, or lie snugly im-bedded in the dark green woods j and from one or : ??? ? Ml ii. - ? !.? I I. I ? I ? ? : m|„ , ,r ,,. , .,, ... , ally assailed by the drum and the life, which own-prise the principal military music of Yorktown. TheSouthern stock of band instruments is nearlyexhausted, so the fife rings changes on the martialaire of Dixie Land and the Marseillaise,varied by Irish jigs; and the drum beats time tothe march or parade. Round the corner of an oldbuilding pour forth a company of soldiers inundress — very undress—costume, lookinglike a troop of
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