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Natick (or Nipmuc) dialect. This Bible was printed 

 at Cambridge, in 1668, and was the first Bible printed 

 in America. Owing to sickness, and other causes so 

 fatal to the race, the red men have now become entirely 

 extinct in Massachusetts. A monument is now 

 being erected at Roxbury to mark the spot where 

 rest the ashes of the Puritan, Pilgrim, and Apostolic 

 Eliot, who tamed the ferocity of the red man by the 

 proclamation of a plain, old-fashioned gospel. Thus, 

 after the lapse of 160 years, a Corinthian column is 

 to remind the traveller of the " Apostle to the 

 Indians." The first name on the list of subscribers 

 to the monument is Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh, (George 

 Copway) the Indian chief, who recently attended the 

 peace congress in Germany ; he subscribed $25. 

 Air. Eliot settled in Roxbury in 1632. He died in 

 1690, aged 86 years. There are many other places 

 of great interest on the road between Boston and 

 Worcester, but to speak of every place would swell 

 this volume beyond the limits which I intend for it. 

 On the Western Railroad are places of surpassing 

 beauty and loveliness. The following is written by 

 Miss Sedgwick, a native of Stockbridge, Berkshire 

 County, Massachusetts. Speaking of Berkshire, she 

 says : — 



