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his pocket Microscope to examine and compare 

 these stones in both photographs, when he 

 found that they were representations of the 

 same scene, one side of the monumental stone 

 being seen in the one photograph, and the 

 opposite side of the stone in the other. But, 

 on the face of the stone singly represented in 

 the second photograph, the writer, by the aid 

 of his Microscope, made a further discovery. 

 He traced on that stone the handwriting of the 

 sun, as, with unerring fidelity, it had painted 

 the original scene on the far-distant shores of 

 the Crimea ; for the Microscope revealed letters 

 written by the light of Heaven, which the eye 

 of man had not previously seen. It deciphered 

 in the photograph the name of the noble sol- 

 dier whose mortal remains the stone covered, 

 Captain Edward Stanley, who had fallen on the 

 bloody field of Inkermann ! When the atten- 

 tion of the party who had charge of the collec- 

 tion was called to the fact, he expressed his 

 mingled surprise and delight in a very marked 

 manner. The cause of his emotion at once ap- 

 peared, when he stated that, during the period 

 of the exhibition of the photographs in Edin- 

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