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WASHINGTON S TOMB. 



admitted to view the interior. The place ap 

 pears to be completely neglected, and the on 

 ly thing worthy of observation is a small gar 

 den with a few orange and lemon trees which 

 were planted by the hand of Washington. 



That Washington latterly turned his mind 

 to agriculture and the improvement of his 

 landed estate, appears from his correspondence 

 with Sir John Sinclair, but of any improve 

 ments he actually accomplished no vestige re 

 mains ; the land has been allowed to return to 

 a state of wild nature, and is now a mere 

 copse forest. 



The remains of Washington and of his wi 

 dow are contained in stone coffins or sarcopha- 

 guses, deposited side by side in an arched 

 mausoleum, and inscriptions on them tell that 

 he died in 1799, at the age of sixty-seven, and 

 she in 1802, at the age of seventy-one. 



Standing by the tomb of Washington, it is 

 with a feeling of profound veneration, that one, 

 even of the country over which he so signally 

 triumphed, looks back to his history to the 

 generosity of his nature the energy of his 



