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“... 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 of the Halifax and Bermudas and the
Direct West India Cable Companies are in Front Street,
which runs parallel with the wharves, and in Queen
Street, which leads to the Hamilton 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:
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Erected
A.D. MDCCCLXI
By authority of the legislature in grateful
REMEMBRANCE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES AND PRIVATE
worth of Major-Genl. Sir William Reid, K.C.B.,
Governor...”
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