144 THE MICROSCOPE. 



4. It was the good fortune of the author of 

 this little work to have a recent opportunity 

 of employing the Microscope in circumstances 

 where its use led to a singular discovery, 

 fraught to one individual at least with intelli- 

 gence as interesting as it was unexpected. Two 

 or three years ago, a large collection of photo- 

 graphs, taken in the Crimea during the war, 

 was exhibited in Edinburgh. They belonged 

 to Mr. Fenton of London, amounted to about 

 four hundred in number, and represented the 

 most remarkable incidents and personages con- 

 nected with the Crimean conflict. The writer, 

 in course of an inspection of the photographs, 

 was contemplating with solemnized feelings 

 the memorable scene of Cathcart's Hill, studded 

 with sepulchral monuments, beneath which 

 sleep so many of Britain's noblest sons. As 

 he passed onward from this photograph, his 

 attention was immediately arrested by another, 

 representing a single sepulchral monument. It 

 occurred to him that this monumental stone 

 was, in outline and appearance, exactly like one 

 which he had just seen in the general group of 

 monuments on Cathcart's Hill. He employed 



