Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . plished Baroness Biedesel. It is an interesting memento,and preserved with great care. Near the westerly corner 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 more, than the welcome of Samoset tothe white settlers, and is distinguished by the circumstancethat beneath its broad shadow General Washington first CAMBRIDGE. 143 drew his sword as commander-in-chief of the continentalarmy, on the morning of July 3d, 1775. Not far fromhere
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . plished Baroness Biedesel. It is an interesting memento,and preserved with great care. Near the westerly corner 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 more, than the welcome of Samoset tothe white settlers, and is distinguished by the circumstancethat beneath its broad shadow General Washington first CAMBRIDGE. 143 drew his sword as commander-in-chief of the continentalarmy, on the morning of July 3d, 1775. Not far fromhere was 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. the drum was used in Cambridge, instead of the bell, tosummon the congregation to the place of worship, orto give warning of a savage enemy, the sound floatedthroughout those trailing limbs, that, could they but speak,would take a veterans delight in telling of the past. Mayno unkind hand mar the last tree of the native forest. 144 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. Though it may have stood century after century, like asentinel on duty, defying the lightning and the storm, stilllet it stand, an interesting and sacred memorial of thepast and the present, and continue to be associated, formany years to come, with the history of our let the illustrious name which it bears, and which itderives from one of the most important events in the lifeof the father of his country, preserve it to remind thecoming generations of his invaluable services and labors. Mount Auburn. — The cemetery of Mount Auburn,justly celebrated as the most interesting object of the kindin our country, is situated in Cambri
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