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saved our country from unspeakable disaster, 

 without symbolizing it by the actors, to what- 

 soever motive at heart they might ascribe their 

 conduct. 



For many years there had been standing by 

 the roadside in private grounds an unpreten- 

 tious little pyramid with a commemorative in- 

 scription upon it. 



This was replaced in 1880 by a column of 

 larger size, surmounted by a bronze statue 

 representing one of the bushmen, musket in 

 hand, in an attitude like that of the picket 

 guard in the well-known statuette by Rogers. 

 It is artistic in all respects excepting that the 

 fingers of the hand held back in caution, are 

 so very long that no one can fail to be struck 

 by the want of proportion in this small particu- 

 lar which detracts from the merit of the work 

 as a whole. If Dr. Coutant would climb up 

 by means of a ladder and amputate a few 

 inches from each of those preposterous fingers, 

 his surgical skill would commend itself as 

 much as his antiquarian lore to our grati- 

 tude. 



The topography of the country has some- 

 what changed since Irving made it the scene 



