Burial Hill. _The _Edw Winslow._ _Town _Gov. Bradford._ Brook_ Square._ _Francis Cooke._ _Mr. Isaac Allerton._ _John Billington._ _A Highway leading to _King St. now Main St._ Town Brook._ _Mr. William Brewster._ _First _Stephen Hopkins._ Street—now Leyden St._ _John Goodman._ _John Howland._ _Peter Brown._ _Samuel Fuller._ _Common House._ Cole’s Hill First Burial Place. The Harbor [Illustration: POST OFFICE AND CUSTOM HOUSE.] Continuing up Leyden street to Main street, we pass on our left the U. S. Government post office and custom house building, a handsome Colonial edifice completed in 1915. This site is peculiarly and historically appropriate for the Federal building, as it is the lot assigned to William Brewster, Dec. 28, 1620, (old style), in the laying out just described. He was the elder or spiritual teacher of the Pilgrims, so on his homestead where he taught religious liberty which distinguishes our country, the Nation places its representative cornerstone—a most happy coincidence of the marking of Colonial and National beginnings. The public fountain at the corner gives invitation to “freely drink and quench your thirst” from the Pilgrim Spring on the Brewster meerstead, the water of which is sent by electric power from the cool, copiously gushing source near the bank of Town Brook, 200 feet away. Plymouth in 1627 [Illustration: Illustrated capital] In 1627, Isaac DeRaiseres, an officer from the Dutch Colony of New Netherland, now New York, visited Plymouth, and in a letter to Holland sends the following description of appearance of the place:— [Illustration: Pilgrims and stronghouse]