![]() Knowing that you have been no less distinguished in literature Your well- timed and well-directed efforts to rescue the tomb of theįather of our country from neglect and dilapidation. Of the public has naturally warmed towards you, on account of Our people from one extremity of the land to the other. To your eloquent appeal in its behalf is pre-eminentlyĭue the credit of the progress already made in that noble work,Īnd the favor with which the subject is universally received by You have done more than any other man, or, I might say, than all To make to you : For the purchase of the Mount Vernon property LEDGER OFFICE, NEW YORK, September 2, 1858.ĭEAR SIR :-I have a proposition of a somewhat peculiar nature Serve as an appropriate introduction to the present The origin of the " Mount Vernon Papers, " and will The following correspondence sufficiently explains In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern The Mount Vernon Papers (1860) is a book by Edward Everett.ĮNTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, There is no more frightful chapter in the history of modern warfare than the Campaigns of 17 in Switzerland."- The Mount Vernon Papers (1860) by Edward Everett Alison, however, who rather affects the graphic, represents the Devil's Bridge as being blown up, and says that the Russians in their march, "found an impassable gulf two hundred feet deep, surmounted by precipices above a thousand feet high," and swept by a murderous fire from the enemy's artillery. The Hand-book says it was not the Devil's Bridge that was thus blown up, but a smaller arch over one of the lateral torrents, which is more probable. Our guide informed us that when the army of Suwarrow was pursuing the French in this gorge in 1799, finding the bridge blown up, the Russians made a temporary bridge, over which they crossed, by tying small timbers together with the silken sashes of the officers. It is nearer the plunging cataract of the Reuss than the old bridge, but this last is (or was, for I know not if it is still standing) so narrow, its pathway so exposed, and its whole appearance so insecure, that it really seemed unsafe to cross particularly if you had to force your way on horseback, through a flock of wild sheep, driven forward by clamorous shepherds and their dogs. The modern structure is solid, fenced in by lofty parapets, and approached by a convenient terraced pathway on each side. "The traveller of the present day knows nothing but by tradition of the passage of the ancient Devil's Bridge over the Reuss. "- The Mount Vernon Papers (1860) by Edward Everett ![]() The modern structure is solid, fenced in by lofty parapets, and approached by a convenient terraced pathway.
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