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favourite resting-place nearly opposite the Gateway, but 

 there was a peculiar siguificance about this last cross. 



" He rowed his sisters-in-law," writes Mr. Moore, " in 

 his boat to the far end of the lake which surrounds Walton 

 Hall, and when they arrived at the spot, he told them he 

 intended to be buried there, and put his arms round the 

 cross. 'Squire,' said Miss Edmonstone in Italian, for 

 there was a man at work within hearing, ' it is your birth- 

 day.' He smiled and bowed assent." And on the 3rd of 

 June in the following year he was laid in the spot which 

 he had indicated. 



The remains of his grandfather lie beneath an elm-tree 

 in another part of the park. 



It is noteworthy that the spot where he fell is only a 

 stone's-throw from the cross, and just half-way between it 

 and the group of trees called the " Twelve Apostles." It 

 is now marked with a cross. 



Originally, his son intended to build a memorial chapel 

 over the grave, but he afterwards, and rightly, relin- 

 quished the intention, thinking that the plain stone cross 

 erected by Waterton himself, engraved with his own 

 simple inscription, was a more fitting memorial than any 

 chapel, however beautiful it might be. 



[ISToTE. — The Bust of "Waterton has now been reproduced 

 with the dress according to his invariable costume. Copies 

 and Photographs may be procured from F. W. Wilson, 

 Westgate House, Kirk-Dale, Sydenham.] 



