84 MEMOIR OF BRUCE. 



in so many distant lands slipt ; he fell down several 

 steps, broke some of his fingers, pitched on his head, 

 and expired. Every attempt to restore animation 

 was unavailing, the vital spark had fled. Four 

 days after his death, the hody was deposited in the 

 church-yard of Larbert, in a tomb which Bruce had 

 built for his wife and his infant child. In passing 

 through that village, the eye of the traveller is ar- 

 rested by a monument, plain in its architecture, but 

 somewhat more conspicuous from its position than 

 the rest. It marks the spot where reposes the dust 

 of the celebrated explorer of the fountains of the 

 Nile. On the south side is the following inscrip- 

 tion: 



IN THIS TOMB ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS 

 OF 



JAMES BRUCE, ESQ. OF KINNAIRD, 



WHO DIED ON THE 27TH OF APRIL, 1794, 

 IN THE 64TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



HIS LIFE WAS SPENT IN PERFORMING 



USEFUL AND SPLENDID ACTIONS : 



HE EXPLORED MANY DISTANT REGIONS : 



HE DISCOVERED THE SOURCES OF THE NILE: 



HE TRAVERSED THE DESERTS OF ARABIA. 



HE WAS AN AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND, 



AN INDULGENT PARENT, 

 AN ARDENT LOVER OF HIS COUNTRY. 



BY THE UNANIMOUS VOICE OF MANKIND, 

 HIS NAME IS ENROLLED WITH THOSE 



WHO WERE CONSPICUOUS 

 FOR GENIUS, FOR VALOUR, AND FOR VIRTUE. 



