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Rev. Samuel Whiling. 35
dangered its foundations. When last visited by
the writer of this memoir (I863), it seemed to
have been well preserved, though in every part
it exhibited incontestable evidence of its an-
tiquity.
The parish church in which John Cotton
preached is three hundred and eighty-two feet
in length, and ninety-nine in breadth ; and the
tower is two hundred and sixty-two feet in
height, and resembles that of the cathedral at
Antwerp. It forms a conspicuous landmark
for sailors, being visible at sea for forty miles.
O" "
" Among the parish churches of En_]and, said
Everett (in his address at Plymouth, Dec. 22,
I845), " there is not a finer than the church at
Boston, almost a cathedral in size, and unsur-
passed by any of its class in the beauty of its
architecture." "While I mused beneath its
arches, ascended its grand tower, and stood before
the altar at which Cotton ministered, I
gained new impressions of the Christian heroism,
the spiritual grandeur of the men, who,
turned their backs on all this sacred grandeur
and beauty, as well as on all the comforts and