edantry; his style, which aimed at the antique,
was deficient in elegance and rhythm. Learned, urbane, logical, he was
not quick and ready, but solid and profound. He was of middle size,
well-formed, his forehead ample, nose aquiline, eye dark gray,
expression manly and engaging. His religious opinions were supposed to
be skeptical; but the closing scene of his life is said to have been
that of a sincere professor of the Christian faith.

FOOTNOTES:

[652:A] Extracts from Orderly Book:--

"SPRING FIELD, July 17th, 1776.

"General Lewis hopes that the reports of some of the officers
gaming to excess is without foundation: he begs that the
field-officers will make diligent enquiry into it, and if
true, to arrest such officers, that a total stop may be put to
so infamous practices.

"Officer for the day LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WEEDON."

"SPRING FIELD, July 24th, 1776.

"The Declaration of Independency is to be proclaimed to-morrow
in the City of Williamsburg, by order of the council, when all
the troops off duty are to attend."

"WILLIAMSBURG, July 26th, 1776.

"Parole--Stephen.

"A fatigue of one captain, two subalterns, two sergeants, and
sixty rank and file, to be warned from the College Camp, to
carry on the work intended to be thrown up on the road to
Jamestown.

"Colonel Buckner will please to order a fatigue proportioned
to his number of men, to work on the road from Burwell's Ferry
to Williamsburg, at such a place as he shall judge proper to
fortify. One company of the second regiment to take post
to-morrow at Mr. Burwell's, to erect a work at the mouth of
King's Creek. The rest of the second regiment to march
to-morrow to Mr. Digges's, to fortify there."

[653:A] He afterwards sent, by Parson Bracken, a volume of his sermons,
a present to young Nelson. The parson liked them so well that he
preached them all before he delivered the book.

[653:B] Old Churches, of Va., i. 207.

[653:C] His statue is to stand on the monument in Richmond.

[654:A] The following is his epitaph:--

"Here lyeth
the body of the
HON. BENJAMIN HARRISON, ESQ.,
who did justice, loved mercy, and walked