The New Hampshire Gazette

The Forefathers' Rock enclosed.—It affords the highest satisfaction to announce that the long desired protection of the Forefathers' Rock is at length completed, and it may be pronounced a noble structure worthy of the purpose intended. The fabric is a perfect ellipse, forty-one feet in circumference, consisting of wrought iron bars five feet high, resting on a base of hammered granite. The heads of the perpendicular bars are harpoons and boat-hooks alternately. The whole is embellished with emblematical figures of cast iron. The base of the railing is studded with emblems of marine shells placed alternately reversed; having a striking effect. The upper part of the railing is encircled with a wreath of iron castings in imitation of heraldry curtains, with festoons; of these there are forty-one bearing the names in bas-relief of the forty-one Puritan Fathers who signed the memorable compact while in the cabin of the May flower at Cape Cod, in 1620. This noble acquisition reflects honor on all who have taken an interest in the undertaking. In the original design by George W. Brimmer, Esq. ingeniousness and a fine taste is displayed; and in all its parts the work is executed with much judgment and skill. The castings are executed in the most improved style of the art. This superb memorial will last for ages, and the names and story of the great founders of our empire will be made familiar to the last generation. Plymouth Memorial.