Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-05-19

a greater amount of personal biography, than
in many large volume, and their length com
pells mo to refrain from giving them.
Proceeding into the north aisle, we are still
among these silent, yet speaking monuments
and offgies O. the dead. This apartment seems
to have been devoted more exclusively to men
OF rank as peers, naval officers, eminent ply
sicians and scientific men. While here also
there are many very good monuments and de-
signs to great and good men, shall oray men
tion one, and yoc will pardon if describe it.
when tell you it is that Of Sir Isaac Newton,
to whom the world might. well pay all The
respect any mortal is worthy to receive. This
is grand and expressive monument, evesy way
as worthy as matter can be made of mind, of
this worthy man. 1t is a large entablaturs of
marble, on which he is sculptursd in a recum-
bent position, leaning his right arm on four
foios-thus titled, Divinity, Chronology, OPP
tics and Philosophy, prin. Maitland point.
ing to scroll supported by winged cherubs.-
Over this is a large globe, projecting from
pyramid behind, whereon is delineated the
course of tho Comet in 1850, with the signs,
consultations and planets. On the globe sits
the figure Of Astronomy, with her book closed.
Beneath the principal figure sa most curious
bas relief, representing the various lahors in
which Sir Isaac chiefly employed his time /;
such as discovering the cause of gravittion,
settling the principle of light and colors, and
reducing the coinage to fixed standard. But
while the whole device does honor to the sculp-
tor he has oyerrcached himself in tho bold
device, by which he has represented him weigh
ing the sun by the steel yard. The inscription
is short, but full of meaning, intimating that,
"by spirit nearly divine, he solved, on prin-
ciples ef his own, the motions and signs Of the
planets, the course Of tho comets, and the ebb-
ing and flowing of the sea that he discovered
the dissimilarity Of the rays of light, and the
properties of colors, from thence arising, which
none but himself had ever thought of; that he
was dilligcnt, wise and faithful interpreter of
nature, antiquity, and the Holy Scriptures;
that by his philosophy he maintained the digni
ty of the Supreme Being; and by the purity of
his life, the simplicity of the Gospel" 1t con-
cludcs with this beautiful exclamation "How
much reason mortals have to pride themselves
in the existence Of such and so great an orna
ment to the human race" Born l642, and
died 1926.
Bidding adieu, then, for the present, to these
relics, we will enter the west end of the naveE
Here again are VIC reminded by the many mon
uments, to men who, by their own exertiOns,
have raised themselves to places of honor and
respected memory in the eyes of succeedin
generations, that those beautiful words of Long
fellow are not only true with respect to the
present, but have been IN the past, and who will
say, will not be in the future?
"Lives Of great men oil remind us,
We may may make our lives submei
And departing leave behind us
footprints on the sand OF time:
! oot-prints which perhaps another,
Poor, forlorn and ship-wrecked brotb'r
Sailing ife's solemn main
Seeing, may take heart again"
Perhaps in no place on earth can these words
find 80 full and literal verifcation as in West
minister Abbey. In this section, we will only
notice, among the many, one monument to the
memory of Zachary Macaulay, who for more
than forty years devoted himself to the labors
which, guided and blessed by God, first rescued
the British Empire from the guilt of the slave
trade, and finally conferred freedom on eight
hundred thousand slaves and William Pitt,
whe for a long while stood first and foremost in
all the greatest measures for the peace and pro-
motion of his country 8 welfare, and who stands
as high in the public estimation as almost any
other Macaulay and Pitt are men here uni
versally honored and beloved The latter died
in 1906.
We will now enter the south aisle, whose
whole extent is only one vast storc-housc for
the ilustrious dead, and their numerous monu-
ments seem as if yicing as did they, to see which
should excel. Here reposc the mortal remains
Of eloquent diyiner, renowned statesmen (of
! the olden time,) veterans of tho army and navy,
men Of letters and learning, in whose lives
were many noble and virtuous deeds, that their
deaths might bc the moro triumphant. We
will particularly note but one among the many
hundreds amid which it is situated, most of
which, as works Of art excel it IN magnfccncc,
although it may be doubted if any exccllcd in
many noble points him whose memory it per-
petuates 1t is q small monument Of white
marble, erected to the memory of DR.. Isaac
Watts. In tho upper portion is Dust of that
eminent divine. supported by Genii, who seem
pleased with the office allotted them. Under
ncath in circle, is fine figure OF the Doctor
sitting on stool, in the attitude of deep con-
temptation, which is beautifully expressed by an
angel opening to him the wonders of creation,
while in one hand he holds pm, and with the
other points to IA celestial globe. I" Boru July
18th, 1875, and died Nov 2jth, l74s.''
Having now visited all parts Of the Abbey
save the poets corner, and the closters. tho
latter Of which shall not attempt to tell you
of, will, that you may form some idea Of this
vast charnel-h house, give you some of tlc dimen-
sions OF the Abbey proper, saying naught about
tho whole of tie nine additions, the dimen-
s'ops of ono Of which We have given. Length
from east to west, three hundred and seventy
five feet; height to inner root. one hundred and
one feet From tLis vast extent YOU can well
see have only taken note Of small portion Of
what it would coutain, and you must remember
that it is quite filed.
Passing then to the last portion--the south
trnnsspt or poets c9rn4x-. we will mention