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dren. His fortitude and sense of decorum never forsook him during 
his long and. distressing decline. He almost always saw his friends, 
and some of them he would never suffer to be denied ; even when in 
intense pain, he was cheerful, social, and courteous, and to the last, 
he maintained the observance of order, and proper attention to his 
person. He desired that the writer of these notes should be in the 
house at the closing scene, and although this was prevented by cir- 
cumstances, he expressed to him, near the close of life, sentiments, 
such as we should wish to hear from a dying friend. As is com- 
mon, in cases where there has been severe suffering, his countenance, 
ter death, assumed its natural expression even in a greater degree 
than for several weeks before. : 
His funeral was attended by a large concourse of his fellow citi- 
zens, who assembled in one of the churches, to which the body was 
conveyed, and where an appropriate religious service was performed. 
is tomb is after the model of that of Scipio at Rome, a minia- 
ture of which, of the same stone of which it was originally made, 
Was sent out cut from Italy by Mr. William C. Woodbridge, and has 
been adopted in the case of two other eminent men, the late Dr. 
Nathan Smith, and Mr. Ashmun, the founder of the colony of Li- 
ia. Tt is simple, beautiful and grand, and promises to endure for 
Centuries.* An accurate drawing of it, by Mr. R. Bakewell, Jr. 
i$ annexed, 
: * The foundations of the monument are laid at the bottom of the grave, by the 
Sides of the coffin, and lower down than it; an arch of stone is thrown over the coffin, 
and the structure then rises, solid as an ancient temple. The material of the monu- 
Ment is the fine grained sandstone, of Chatham, Conn. The several layers of stone 
Consequence of a recent visit to the cemetery of aven, evince the es imation 
hich Mr Whitney’s name is held, by one who is fully capable of appreciating 
his merits, er alludi to th tof G mophrev: ho introd d th 
tet of his own skill, which has furnished a large part of its population, ‘from child- 
toage, with a lucrative employment; by which their debts have been paid off; 
