boasts. The form is pyramidal; and the height of the obelisk, forty-five feet. The shaft is adorned by a colossal bust of the immortal Washington, and surmounted by the American Eagle, sustaining a civic crown above the heroic head. Language can scarcely afford a more irresistibly touching illustration of the moral sublime, than is contained in the brief sentence inscribed upon this hallowed tomb :— MARY THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON. APPENDIX TO MARY WASHINGTON. NOTE A.-"In the year 1538, the Manor of Sulgrave, in Northumberlandshire, was granted to Lawrence Washington, of Gray's Inn, and for some time Mayor of Northampton. He was probably born at Warton, in Lancashire, where his father lived. The grandson of this first proprietor of Sulgrave, who was of the same name, had many children, two of whom, that is, John and Lawrence Washington, being the second and fourth sons, emigrated to Virginia about the year 1657, and settled at Bridge's Creek, on the Potomac River, in the county of Westmoreland The eldest brother, Sir William Washington, married a half-sister of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Lawrence had been a student at Oxford. John had resided on an estate at South Cave, in Yorkshire, which give rise to an erroneous tradition among his descendants, that their |