Above whose dust she carves the deathless laurel, Wreathing the victor's sword.

"And here the young cadet, in manly beauty,

Bonie from the tents which skirt those rocky banks, Called from life's daily drill and perilous duty To these unbroken ranks "

The most conspicuous object in the Cemetery is the Cadet's Monument, situated at the eastern angle. It is a short column, of castle form, composed of light brown hewn stone, surmounted by military emblems

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and a foliated memorial xirn, wrought from, the same material. It was erected in the autumn of 1818, to the memory of Yincent M. Lowe, of New York, by his brother cadets. He was accidentally killed by the discharge of a cannon, on the 1st of January, 1817. The names of several other officers and cadets are inscribed upon the monument, it having been adopted by the members of the institution as " sacred to the memory of the deceased " whose names are there recorded.

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From the brow of the hill, near the Cadet's Monument, is a comprehensive view of the picturesque village of Cold Spring, on the east side of the river, occupying a spacious alluvial slope, bounded by rugged heights on the north, and connected, behind a range of quite lofty mountains, with the fertile valleys of Duchess and Putnam Counties. We shall visit it

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presently. Meanwhile let us turn our eyes southward, and from another point on the margin of the Cemetery, where a lovely shaded walk invites the strollers on warm afternoons, survey Camp Town at our feet, with "West Point and the adjacent hills. In this view we see the Old Landingplace, the road up to the plateau, the Laboratory building?, the Siege Battery, the Hotel, near the remains of old Fort Clinton, upon the highest ground on the plain, the blue dome of the Chapel, the turrets of the great