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“...BERMUDA
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Hamilton, which owes its name to Henry Hamilton,
Governor when it was incorporated in 1790, succeeded
St. George’s as the seat of Government in 1815. It is
a picturesque town of white houses laid out on a rect-
angular plan on gently rising ground. The principal
shops or stores and merchants’ warehouses and the
Cable Office are in Front Street, which runs parallel with
the wharves, and in Queen Street, leading to the Hamil-
ton Hotel. Turning to the right along Front Street on
landing at the wharf one comes to a square, green with
many trees, among which is a cedar planted by Prince
Alfred, afterwards Duke of Edinburgh, the uncle of
King George V, when he visited Bermuda in 1862.
A monument in the square perpetuates the memory
of William Reid, Governor from 1839 to 1846, who was
the first to call attention to the agricultural possibilities
of the Bermudas. It is inscribed :
Erected
A.D. MDCCCLXI
By authority of the legislature in grateful
REMEMBRANCE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES AND...”
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