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'* " No idle statue apes thine air." The principal memorials of the per- son of Samuel Adams are as follows : First, the picture by Copley, which represents him in the attitude of an orator. It was painted for (Governor Hancock, became afterwards the property of Mr. Wells, and is now in Faneuil Hall. A spirited engraving was made from it, by T. House, for the work of Mr. Wells; but only a few proofs have been taken from the plate. Second, a full length taken in old age, by Johnston. He is seated in an arm-chair, his hand resting on a chart, and an open window discloses a view of the old State House in Boston. It was faithfully engraved in mezzotinto, by Graham, in 1797, and the print, which is in folio, is of the e.\tremest scarcity.

'^ " And o'er the uucolumned tomb," &c. Samuel Adams was buried in the Checkley tomb, which adjoins the westerly sidewalk of Tremont Street, in Boston. His bones have been gathered into a box by his grandson, and deposited in a corner of the vault. Teste S. A. Wells.

ASSABET BROOK AND RIVER.

'^ The Assabet river rises in Worcester county, Mass., is joined in Stowe by the Assabet brook, and, uniting in Concord with the Sudbury, forms the Concord river proper, which empties into the Merrimack at Lowell.

'9 " Since now the artist's skilful hand," &c. Some interesting drawings made by Mr. Henry Hitchings, the landscape draughtsman, are here referred to.

20 (i 'Where near the verge the ball-flowers blow ; " />. " Cephalanthus occidentalis," Linn. Commonly called " button bush."

=' "Near that gray column rude and low; " i.e. the battle monument in Concord.

THE SOLITARY MAN.

" " They seek the false, who have not found the true." For an ampli- fication of this idea, see Montaigne's Fourth Essay.

THE MOUNTAIN JOURNEY.

^^ The laws which regulate the geographical distribution of plants, in accordance with which altitude becomes the representative of latitude, have been well known to naturalists since the days of De Saussure. The same phenomena -which are observable upon European mountains occur also with slight variations upon our own. A few facts may here suffice for the unscientific reader.

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