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A Visit to Mount Vernon Profound and Venerable
A correspondent recounts a June 1841 excursion to Mount Vernon on the Virginia shore of the Potomac. He describes the house, grounds, and summer house, the cedar stumps and Indian mounds in the bottom land, the vaults, and Washington’s grave site, with moral reflections on preservation and national memory.
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