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inside the eastern door, having been found partly covered up in the grave- 

 yard and placed here for safety. It is rudely carved and imperfectly 

 spelled by some hand unskilled in, or all unused to such work : 



LENERD BLANCK 

 DESeaCED 



5 AUG 

 1782 



Not many feet from the church is the large flat stone, so often visited, 

 hacked and marred, for to such an ignoble use as a butcher's block were 

 these sacred memorials put in 1813. The hatchet marks have almost 

 obliterated some of the words. 



" To the memory of Charles Morrison, a native of Scotland, who re- 

 sided many years at Machilimacinac as a merchant, and since the cession 

 of that .... United States as a British subject by election . . 



. for loyalty to his sovereign Died here on 



his to Montreal on the sixth day of September, 1802, 



aged 65 " 



In the porch, at the north door of the older part of the church is a 

 tablet which brings back to us the rattle of musketry and rush of foemen 

 the day when Niagara was taken. 



" In memory of Capt. M. McLelland, aged 42 years, Charles Wright 

 and Wm. Cameron in the 25th year of their age, of the ist Regiment of 

 Lincoln Militia, who gloriously fell on the 27th day of May, 181 3, also 

 Adjutant Lloyd of the 8th King's Regiment of Infantry. 



As lurid lightnings dart their vivid light. 

 So poured they forth their fires in bloody fight. 

 They bravely fell and saved their country's cause, 

 They loved their Constitution, King and Laws." 



The last three words, it is needless to remark, are in capital letters. 

 In excuse for the absence of poetry in these lines, it may be said that the 

 people of these days were too busy writing history with their swords to 

 trouble about elaborating musical couplets or quatrains. 



Here we unroll a page of history, a name handed down to obloquy by 

 the skill of the poet and the imaginative powers of the sensational writer, 

 but no doubt Time, which rights many wrongs, will do justice to the 

 memory of one so bitterly spoken of by English poet and American his- 

 torian : when even Henry VIII. finds a justifier, we may hope to 



