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necessary io quicken the emotions of returning 
hope. It was easier to extinguish a fever than to 
mitigate despondency. ‘The hospital officer suggested 
to the Admiralty that they should clear out from 
over-running wood, and bush and brier, the ancient 
burial ground at Greenwich, on the opposite side of 
the harbour ; representing the place as full of vaults 
and menumental memorials of the old seamen of the 
_ station, and that when opened out and set in order, 
with its heavy timbered trees and flowering shrubs, 
it would have the fairness and freshness of a garden. 
When Greenwich was an appendage of the Dock- 
yard, it was the free space for pastime and recreation - 
with the Port Royal sailor, and, in the property 
yet existing in the burial ground, it might be made 
a strolling place for the sailor still. Sir Charles 
Adams told me he was commissioned to look at it 
and report upon it. [I directed him to it and he 
visited it. It is there the victim of the memorable 
duel, Stackpole, lies buried, his antagonist Cecil, 
who survived him but afew days, finding a grave 
in the little corner garden that fills the cruciform 
spaces of Port Royal Church within the town.— 
I went and examined the Greenwich burial ground 
some years ago. There are several. well-built | 
vaults there. ‘That erected by the Curtin and 
Dowdale family, stands about six feet high on a 
base of about nine or ten feet square. ‘I'wo large 
marble slabs cover the top, recording the interment 
of many members of the family. The last recorded 
is 1752. Major Michael Brandreth of the Hon’ble 
Colonel Hay’s Regiment has a large tomb. His 
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