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Excerpt from A Visit to Stanford University Copyright
Now for a carriage, for the Quadrangle is a good mile from the gate, and there is much ground to be gone over during the day.
We will drive first to the Mausoleum, then go on to the Museum, and so work around to the Quadrangle.
That is the Memorial Arch at the end of the avenue, with the top of the clock-tower above it.
Most of the trees on the low hills beyond are live oaks, though there is quite a sprinkling of white oaks, too. Black Mountain, that dark blue shoulder to the left, is covered with Chaparral, and those tall trees on the long ridge over there to the right are redwoods.
This grove on each side of the avenue is calledthe Arboretum. Senator Stanford had hundreds of specimens from all over the world set out here. The two varieties of palm, planted alternately and lining the avenue all the way from the gate to the oval, and round the oval to the Quad rangle, are the Canary date-palm and the C010 rado desert fan-palm.
The stone structure we are approaching now is the Mausoleum, where Senator Stanford and Leland Stanford Jr. Lie, and this marble canopy over the beautiful figure of the Angel of Grief was placed here close to the Mausoleum by Mrs. Stanford in memory of her brother Henry.
There is some thing strangely impressive about the Mausoleum the plain, granite tomb set in the green, standing all alone among the trees. It seems fitting that this should be the last resting place of the boy Leland, and of the man who founded this great University as a lasting memorial to that much loved son.
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