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Show Montlcello, the Heme of Jefferson. Another old world feature Is tho subterranoan passago which runs under un-der tho house nnd tomes out of tho mountain a hundred .uiU uwny. It was onrn lnrgo enough to admit rccart but has now so fallen Into decay that a man could r.rarculy crawl through. Tradition says that It was through this pnsiaso Jofforeon escaped when wnmed by tho friendly Joultt of tho approach of Tarleton's raiders:, but Dr. W '.' N Randolph, tho great grandson of tho president, told tho writer that tho pretty stcry Is n myth. Doing warned of tho a;..,rcaih of tho Ilrltish, Mr. Jeffoivson took n bildlo path di n tho other sldo of tho mountain, moun-tain, hurriedly committing bis papers to tho chin so of Harwell, li!n negro major duino. Of. Country. |