CHURCH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, KINGSTON. 33 



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BY THE REV. ECCLES JAMES CARTER. 



THE subject whlch I propose to bring before the 

 meeting this evening, is the Church of St. Mary the 

 Virgin, at Kingston. 



When I first undertook to read a Paper before this 

 Society, I never had the privilege of attending any of 

 its meetings, but having now been present at the last one, 

 I feel that an apology is due from me for occupying the 

 time of this assembly with so very meagre a produetion aa 

 constant parochial occupation enables me to present. 

 Having heard the scientific and elaborate Paper on Steeples 

 in general, read at the last meeting by my friend Mr. 

 Petit, illustrated with a profusion of drawings in that style, 

 for which, I think I may say without paying a bad compli- 

 ment to any artist, that he Stands unrivalled ; and having 

 heard, also, as much as time permitted me of that very 

 learned discussion on (to my ignorance) the most mysterious 

 of all subjects, the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, by a gentleman 



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