[16] “It has been computed that the Boston people have drank sufficient _lime_, were it all collected, to build the Bunker Hill Monument as high as it was ever designed to be carried.” Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. This includes misspellings of several Roman names, both proper and common. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. The appearances and hierarchy of headings in the original book were inconsistent. Those inconsistencies have been retained here. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, references in the Table of Contents link to the corresponding headings. Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Plates link to the corresponding illustrations. Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been renumbered and moved to the end of the text. Plate X, page 96: In this eBook, the caption shown for this Plate includes only the headings in the plaque illustrated in the original book. The names of individuals listed under those headings are not included here. Page 145: The numbers “1,000,18” and “1.000.42” were printed that way. In the first one, the commas almost certainly should be periods, if the notation in the second one is what the author intended.