In the antechamber are two marble sarcophagi. The one on the right contains the remains of Washington. It is a plain sarcophagus, with a sculptured lid, upon which is represented the American shield suspended over the flag of the Union, the latter hung in festoons, and the whole surmounted, as a crest, by an eagle with open wings, perched upon the superior bar of the shield. Below the design and deeply cut is :

WASHINGTON,

One of the talons of the eagle in the coat-of-arms was broken off during the Civil War by some relic hunter, which incident suggested the outer and higher gate. This was the only outrage committed at Mount Vernon, though the unarmed pickets of both sides often met before the tomb. Their arms at the request of the servants in charge were left without objection at the old Porter's Lodge some three-quarters of a mile distant. There was but one gate to the tomb at this time, the iron bars not extending to the ceiling. It was over this gate the vandal climbed. This act led to the construction of the present double gate. The legend is, after the gate was locked the key was thrown into the channel of the Potomac River under orders of the Mount Vernon Association preceding a declaration that the gates are never to be opened.

The sarcophagus of Mrs. Washington is perfectly plain, with the words:

:

MARTHA

CONSORT OF WASHINGTON

DIED MAY 21ST 1501; AGED 71 YEARS.

The sarcophagi consist of single 'blocks of Pennsylvania marble, eight feet in length and two feet in height. They were constructed by John Struthers of Philadelphia, from a design by William Strickland, by whom they were presented to the relatives of Washington. The transfer of the remains to the sarcophagi was completed Saturday, October 7, 1837.

In consequence of a feeling of insecurity, the body of Washington was transferred from the old family vault and placed in the new vault April 19, 1831.

The present vault contains the remains of about thirty relatives, members of Washington, Blackburn, Corbin, Bushrod, Lewis, and Custis families.

JOHN ADAMS.

Buried beneath the portico of the "Stone Temple" (First Congregational), Unitarian Church, at Quincy, Massachusetts. The tomb is an apart ment in the cellar beneath the granite portico that forms the entrance to the church, walled in with large blocks of roughly faced granite. A granite slab, seven feet by three, with a huge clasp, padlock, and massive hinges

of wrought iron, all red with rust, forms the door. Within, the body lies in a leaden casket placed within a case hewn from a single block

of stone. Over and around this odd monument is a Gothic structure, twelve feet long, nine feet wide, and twenty feet high, with four pillars supporting a peaked roof.

On the left of the pulpit (as you face it), in the church proper, is a memorial tablet to John Adams and his wife, of slightly clouded marble, seven feet by four. This is surmounted by a life-sized bust of John Adams, from the chisel of Greenough.

This monument and vault and the tablet was erected by John Quincy Adams, the indenture conveying to him for the purpose "a space four

teen feet square under the portico, with liberty to affix to any portion of the walls of the temple obituary tablets."

On the Fourth of July 1776

He pledged his Life, Fortune, and Sacred Honour,
To the INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTRY.

On the third of September 1788

He affixed his Seal to the definitive Treaty with Great Britain,
Which acknowledged that Independence,
And consummated the Redemption of his Pledge.
On the fourth of July 1826

He was summoned

To the Independence of Immortality
And to the JUDGMENT OF HIS GOD

This House will bear witness to his Piety;
This Town, his Birth-Place, to his Munificence;
History to his Patriotism;

Posterity to the Depth and compass of his Mind.
At his Side

Sleeps, till the Trump shall Sound

ABIGAIL,

His beloved and only Wife,

Daughter of William and Elizabeth (Quincy) Smith.
In every Relation of Life a Pattern
Of Filial, Conjugal, Maternal and Social Virtue.
Born November 12, 1744

Deceased 28th October 1818.
Aged 74.

Married 25th October, 1764.

During an Union of more than Half a Century

They survived in Harmony of Sentiment, Principle and Affection,

The Tempests of Civil Commotion;
Meeting undaunted, and surmounting
The Terrors and Trials of that Revolution
Which secured the Freedom of their Country;
Improved the Condition of their Times;
And brightened the Prospects of Futurity
To the Race of Man upon Earth.
PILGRIM

From lives thus spent, thy earthly Duties learn;
From Fancy's Dreams, to active Virtue turn;
Let Freedom, Friendship, Faith, thy Soul engage,
And serve like them thy Country and thy Age.

THOMAS JEFFERSON.

The grave is in a thick growth of woods, a few hundred yards to the right of the embowered road leading to Monticello from Charlottesville, Virginia.

There have been two monuments erected over the remains of Jefferson, as shown in the illustrations.

The family cemetery in Jefferson's time was surrounded by a rough stone wall about four feet high; after his death a high brick wall with an

iron gate was built outside and surrounding the stone one, to protect

JEFFERSON'S OBELISK.

Here was buried

THOMAS JEFFERSON,

the monument from relic
hunters.

Midway in the plot, along
the northerly side, Worm-
ley, Jefferson's old servant,
who survived him twenty-
five years, dug the grave
in the spot his master had
indicated. At its head
was placed a coarse granite
obelisk, in two parts, eight
feet high, resting on a
base three feet square,
designed from a drawing
made by Jefferson. The
inscription, as noted on
his pen-and-ink sketch,
was transferred to or cut
upon a marble tablet and
let into the southern face
of the pedestal :-

:

In Howe's "Historical Collections of Virginia," 1845, he gives the inscription as written by Jefferson himself, as beginning:

This monument was erected in 1828, from granite quarried in Vermont ; the request of Jefferson was it should be Virginia granite, which could not be procured.

In 1882, through an action and appropriation by the United States Congress, work was begun on a new monument, which was placed in position in 1883.

The new monument is Virginia granite, quarried on the James River

Below these are two lines of the speech of Achilles over the dead body of Hector:

And though spirits in a future state be oblivious of the past, he will even there remember his loved companion.

At the request of the "University of the State of Missouri," located at Columbia, Missouri, the "old" monument was presented to them by the great-grandchildren of Jefferson on July 4, 1883.

The old monument was placed in the University campus, in the quadrangle facing the pillars of the old building. The marble tablet bearing the inscription was taken into the building for safe-keeping, and became