I had found the wrecks of cities scattered more numerously than I expected, but they were all so shattered that no voice of instruction issued from them; here they still stood, tottering and crumbling, but living memorials, more worthy than ever of investigation and study, and as I then thought, not knowing what others more distant, of which we had heard, might prove, perhaps the only existing vestiges that could transmit to posterity the image of an American city.
"Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I."
John L. Stephens
A petition-headed by the royal governor and numerously signed by persons of high standing who still adhered to the mother country was presented to Lord Rawdon in behalf of the unfortunate prisoner but all in vain.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
Appeals for redress, petitions and remonstrances, numerously signed, were forwarded to Parliament.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson