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loiter here beyond the time required for a visit to 

 that splendid memorial, executed by Marochetti in 

 snow-white marble, and erected in the centre of a 

 beautiful and well-kept garden ; its figure, repre- 

 senting the Angel of Peace, is enclosed by a very 

 handsome cai'ved stone screen. Those of my 

 readers who wish to peruse the most graphic 

 account of the thrilling events which this monument 

 recalls, I refer to Colonel, then Captain, Mowbray 

 Thomson's " The Story of Cawnpore." The gallant 

 author is one of the only two survivors who escaped 

 by swimming for their lives. 



Instead of continuing my route in a westerly 

 direction, I decided upon visiting Lucknow, lying 

 fifty-three miles due north-east by the Oude and 

 Rohilcund railway. After leaving Cawnpore, I drove 

 for a short distance along the noble Ganges canal, 

 projected by Colonel Colvin, and began during Lord 

 Auckland's administration, to prevent the recurrence 

 of such fearful famine as had desolated, in 1837, the 

 Dooab district, lying between the Ganges and the 

 Jumna. This canal, after many vicissitudes and inter- 

 ruptions, was at last completed in 1854. 



