its fine paintings based on the embarkation and landing of the Pilgrims, or examine its historical library and collection of relics of the Forefathers. The Pilgrim Society also has at Plymouth two monuments, — the Canopy over Forefathers' Rock, and the National Monument to the Forefathers. The former, which is over the Rock, close by the steamboat wharf, is a beautiful specimen of granite work; it is fifteen feet square on the ground, by thirty feet high, and cost some $35,000. In the upper part is a vault in which bad taste has deposited the fragments of bones which were thrown up from Pilgrim graves in 1855, while laying the public conduit on Cole's Hill. Near this structure a fine stone stairway leads up the face of Cole's Hill to the site of the first burial-place, where an obscure horizontal slab of polished granite briefly commemorates the early use of the spot for that purpose, and the discovery of the bones of the first dead there." The National Monument is on an elevation at the rear of the northerly part of the village. After many years of effort the corner-stone was laid Aug. 2, 1859,—the two hundred and fifty-ninth anniversary of the famous embarkation at Delfthaven (p. 50). (The corner-stone of the Canopy was laid at the same time.) The plan contemplated an ornate pedestal eighty feet high, supporting a statue of Faith seventy feet high; but the increase of prices in the Civil War made a great reduction of size necessary to any early completion of the work. It was 1876 before the main portion of the pedestal was built. The next year Hon. Oliver Ames, of Easton (a native of Plymouth), presented the statue of Faith (expending $30,000 for the purpose). Although the pedestal is but forty-five feet high, and the statue thirty-six, the latter is still the tallest granite figure yet cut. It is two hundred and sixteen times the bulk of life, as may be inferred from the fact that its right arm is nineteen feet ten and a half inches long, and the upraised finger two feet and an inch. On viewing the monument will be seen on each corner buttress of the pedestal a sitting statue of heroic size (also in granite). These represent Morality, Education, Law, and Liberty. Below them are small allegorical statues on the sides, and in front are richly sculptured panels representing scenes in Pilgrim History. Upon the pedestal are the names of the "Mayflower's" company. The statue of Morality was contributed in 1878 by the State of Massachusetts, at a cost of 1 See also p. 446 for Standish Monument. 2 See pp. 158–9. THE PILGRIM SOCIETY. 615 $10,000. The beautiful panel in front of it, representing the Embarkation at Delfthaven, was given by the State of Connecticut. In 1881 Roland Mather, of Hartford, Conn., presented the statue of Education and an accompanying panel, Signing the Pilgrim Compact (at a cost of $15,000). The other two buttresses are unoccupied at this writing. But the United States Government decided to present the statue of "Liberty" in 1886, and this, together with the other ("Law") is well under way. It will be seen that, aside from its historical associations, Plymouth is worthy of attention from its works of art. Of the grandest of these memorials—the statue of Faith - Hon. John D. Long nobly said in a recent oration: "Her eyes look toward the sea. Forever she beholds upon its waves the incoming 'Mayflower;' she sees the Pilgrims land. They vanish, but she, the monument of their faith, remains, and tells their story to the world. This our generation too shall pass away, and its successors for centuries-tocome; but she will stand, and, overlooking our forgotten memory, will still speak of them and of their foundation of the Republic on the Plymouth Rocks of Liberty, Law, Morality, and Education." falling out with Peirce, 236; lack of Agamenticus (Acomenticus), 361+. Aborigines of New England, The, 129–137. | Agassiz, Prof. L. J. R., 61. Agawam, 81, 175, 361+. (Igowam). See Agawam, Sagamore of, 237. Agawam Point, 306. Agawams, The, 133. Agawaywams, The, 136, 225. " Agents, The (London), of the Pilgrims, 43, Agriculture, 157, 287, 585. 'Ague," An "inward," 282. Ainsworth, Rev. Henry, 31. Alden, Elizabeth, 257, 277, 293, 297, 567. Alden, John (Pilgrim), 64, 132, 183, 185, | Alden, John (3), 565. Alden, Joseph, 569. Alden, Priscilla Mullins- (Mrs. John-), 187, 247, 257, 566, 567. Alden, Samuel, 567. Ames, Hon. Oliver, 614. Amsterdam, 32, 38, 321; Separatists and 180, 249, 359, 464. Amusements, 104, 180, 196, 317, 604. Anabaptists, 366, 458, 475. "Anabaptistry," 427. Anawam, 559, 560. Anchors, 529. "Ancient-bearer," 81, 360. See "En- Alden-Mullins marriage, The, 247, 257, 566,“ Ancient-Staff,” 190. Aldens, The, 567. Alden Lane, Boston, 568. 567. Alden, spellings, 610. Alderman (Saconet), 560. Aldrich, spellings, 610. "Ales," 104. "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth" (Davis), Alewives, 109, 157, 161. Alexander Pokanoket (sachem), 473, 474, 542, 543- Alfred, king, 18. Alice (Bradford), spellings, 610, 611. Allen, Nehemiah, 554. Allerton, Bartholomew, 184, 185, 187, 293, Ann, The name, 301. 297. Annable, Anthony, 243, 244, 294, 297, 401. Allerton, Fear Brewster- (Mrs. Isaac-), 245, Annable, Hannah, 294, 297. Allerton, Isaac (Pilgrim), 124, 127, 183, 289, 349. Apocynum Cannabinum, 99. Apples, 117, 368, 370, 389, 436, 510, 511,512, Appropriations, legislative, 251. Aqua vitae, 73, 584, 602. Aquiday Island, 133, 296, 337, 357, 406, 407, Allerton, spellings and pronunciation, 175, "Archangel," Waymouth's ship, 147. 610. Allium Canadense, 99. Alltham, Emanuel, 289. "Almanac (1639), Peirse's," 425. Archdeacon of Chelmsford, 108. "Archer's Relation," etc., 61, 62. Are Marson, 140. 147. |