Richmond Palladium

Mount Adams.—The hill on the east of the city of Cincinnati, and upon which the Astronomical Society are about building their observatory has been heretofore called Mount Ida. At a late meeting of the Society held during the recent visit of Mr. Adams, a resolution was passed changing the name of the hill to Mount Adams.

The Gazette in noticing this compliment says:

Let it be so called! It is a familiar and household name, and seems and sounds better than any other of foreign or classic mould. Let it be so called, not only that we, and ours may be thus reminded of what an Honest Sire did for us while the North West was yet a wilderness, and what an equally honest son has done to advance and elevate the characters of the millions that now inhabit that North West, intelligent and free, but that the people may be quickened in their defence of whatever is right, by having before them forever a standing monument of the undying value of virtue, knowledge, law, liberty, as exemplified in the lives of these honest men!—Henceforward, then, be this Hill, so solemnly dedicated to science, known as Mount Adams.