WHAT AND WHERE. 9 



No book or bit of literature has ever given us a place 

 in the world's fame. No public man of national impor- 

 tance has ever made this place conspicuous before our 

 nation. No historical event has ever transpired here 

 which has called the attention of historians. Neverthe- 

 less, for those whose home it is, there is no place more 

 important ; and the romance of both nature and human 

 life which may be told of this spot is doubtless able to 

 catch the sympathetic hearing of many who are not too 

 busy with other parts of the world. 



