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rode over Charlestown Bridge to Breed's, usually called 

 Bunker's Hill. Here I spent half an hour with great emo- 

 tion. Leaning against the monument of Warren, I surveyed 

 the scene of carnage, now a verdant, charming meadow. 

 Our lines of defence, however, are still visible. We de- 

 scended the hill, and spent two hours with Doctor Morse. 

 He treated us with great politeness, and requested our 

 company to breakfast the next day. We returned to Bos- 

 ton, rode around the various parts of the town, and dined 

 at our lodgings. In the afternoon, Button, Denison, Ely, 

 and myself, with Mr. Wells, lately a tutor in Harvard, went 

 in a hack to Cambridge. Mr. Wells introduced us to the 

 gentlemen of college ; .... we were conducted into the 

 Library, Museum, &c., and took tea at Pres. Willard's. In 



the mean time Mr. Ely and I called upon Mr. R ; 



.... he received us very cordially, nor will I detract from 

 the goodness of his heart by hinting that the interesting 

 despalches of which I was the bearer might have added 

 some value in his view to the hand which presented them. 

 We drove back to Boston, and I spent the evening with 



my companion at Captain Goodwin's 



Thursday, 22d. We breakfasted with Dr. Morse, and he 

 waited upon us back to Boston. I then called upon Dr. 

 Eliot, brother of our Mr. Eliot. He showed me much 

 attention ; conducted me to the Historical Library and 

 Museum, introduced me to a number of respectable gen- 

 tlemen, and showed me the house where Dr. Franklin was 

 born. The Doctor's mother, it seems, went to church in the 

 forenoon, became his mother in the intermission, and the 

 infant was baptized in the afternoon, so that the Doctor 

 used humorously to say that he attended meeting the whole 

 of that day. I then called upon Eunice Eliot, and our 

 classmate Gurley. We dined with Dutton and a circle of 

 literati, .... where we enjoyed " the feast of reason, and 

 the flow of soul," until four p. M., when Mr. E. and I ex- 

 cused ourselves and retired. Mr. Eliot, of Fail-field, I 



