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neither are those in the following, although the orthography 

 may be islandic : — 



" Affliction sore long time he bore, 

 Physicions skill proved vain ; 

 At length it pleased Almighty GOD 

 To ease him of Iris pain." 

 I copied the three following because the dead were buried in 

 a far land, where there are none to care for their monuments : 



" Erected in memory of Mungo Easson, from Dundee, aged 

 23 years. He perished on board the steamer Pegasus when 

 wrecked off Holy Island on her passage from Leith to Hull, 

 on the morning of the 21st July, 1843. His body, which is 

 here interred, was found near the scene of the wreck, and 

 brought on shore by a French fishing boat, after having been 

 three weeks in the water." 



" Sacred to the memory of James Richard Elliott, of Roch- 

 dale, Lancashire, Attorney-at-law, who was lost in the 

 wreck of the Pegasus steamer, on the 20th July, 1843, and 

 interred here on the 19th of the following month, in the 

 36th year of his age." 



" Erected by John and George Denham, South Shields, in 

 memory of their Father and Brother, who were drowned at 

 sea, 2d February, 1823, and buried in the churchyard of 

 Lindisfarne, Holy Island : George, their father, aged 60 

 years, and Thomas, their brother, aged 24 years." 



" Erected by Ann Edward, in memory of her husband 

 Alexr. Scroggie, master and part owner of the brig Granite, 

 of Aberdeen, who met with a premature death by falling 

 from his vessel while on this coast, in a gale of wind, on the 

 23rd February, 1822, in the 36th year of his age. His body 

 being afterwards cast on shore, was decently interred in this 

 burying ground." 



From some children playing in the Priory grounds I 

 learned that here the Silene maritima is called "Dead man's 

 grief," and the Lotus corniculatus the " Tommie-tucker." 

 The Veronica Chamcedrys is the " Blue-bell " of the island 

 children. The Buccinum undatum must be very common 

 on the grounds where crab and lobster are fished. A 

 fisherman was desired to bring a few specimens, and he 

 brought a large bucket filled with them of all sizes. He 

 brought also a spiny crab, which was loaded in a very 

 extraordinary manner on the body and limbs with Balani 

 and Anomice. In general the animal is infested with these 



