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While at Mount Vernon I took notes as usual. I always got some new view or fall in with some fresh item of interest every time I visit this sacred spot.

Over the iron grated entrance to the tomb there are engraved these words:

"Within this enclosure rest the remains of Genl. Geo. Washington."

And as you look within you notice on the opposite wall engraved in a marble slab, these noble and lofty words of St. John:

I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and