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Title: Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, A. Williams & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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zontal slab to thememory of jM. W. B., and a little north-west of the pub-lic lot, on Eglantine Path, is the sculptured figure ofChrist blessing little chil(b( ii; a little to the ea>t of thatis the Ford monunicnt. Faith wiih (Ik- Cross, and theFuller monument. Keturn through the south part ofCypress Avenue, where is a monument to Samuel Story,Jr., on Lupine Path; then turn round to the left, intoCedar Avenue, leading to the north, whcie are monumentsto Gridley, Ilayward, Benjamin, and others; continue to the right hand, through part of Cypress Avenue, to Cen-tral Avenue, passing the statue of Bowditch, and view themonument to the ollicers lost in the ex))loring e\)tedition,and others, after whicli a return to the gate on the northmay be made direct. A short distance from the cemetery, in Watertown,is the ITniteu States Arsenal. It stands on the banksof the Charles River, a short distance below the village,contains a large amount of munitions of war, and co\ersforty acres of ground.
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CHAPTER XXV. BUNKER HILL. MONUMENT. STATUp: OF GEN. WARREN. NAVY YARD. STATKs PRISON. HARVARD MONU-MENT. Charlestown horse-cars can speedily set us downat the foot of Bunker Hill, where the pride of Britainwas once humbled, and her veteran sons, in promiscuousheaps, bit the dust. On the summit of this eminencestands the renowned Monument, towering to the skies,silently saying. Here was the bloody conflict between theoppressor and the oppressed; there floated the ships ofwar that vainly thundered with the engines of desolationagainst the undaunted heroes who, with pickaxe andshovel, upheaved the mounds that were to protect themfrom the enemy. Ascending one of the long flights of granite steps to the gravel walk that leads to the monument, we approachthe highest spot of this everlasting hill, of everlastingremembrance. Though once soaked witli the blood ofthe slain, it is now a beautiful and interesting resort tostrangers and travellers. Its pleasingly verdant surface BOSTON AND VICINIT

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