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burial is of 1730. The slab is headed with the 
family arms. ‘The crest, a lamb ecouchant. f 
noticed a head stone to the Halls of St. Andrew’s, 
an inscription on-a plate of copper of some naval 
perscnage, and a tomb cf some official of the Dock- 
yard, ‘There are numerous other memorials of the 
dead, but the place is so overgrown with wood, as 
well underwood as forest trees, that one makes his 
search of curiosity with a feeling conviction that if 
these tenants of the grave yard did not live contend- 
ing with the thorns and thistles that the earth was to 
bring forth to every child of Adam, since the doom 
‘‘ dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return,” 
overtook them, they have not escaped the curse. 
—VJhis burial ground is up, about a couple of bow- 
shots from the beach, “high and dry,” commanding 
a pleasant view of the busy waters of the harbour, 
and of the mingled plains and mountains around.— 
No other burial ground in the district has the same 
aspect of a quiet resting-place, in the midst of a 
stirring world on sea and land, and so broadly 
and unobstructedly within sight of the great and 
terrible doings of human passion, the batteries on 
the shore fierce and tranquil, like sleeping watch- 
dogs; and the moving castles ‘“‘ whose march is on 
the mountain wave.” It is a very appropriate berth 
for a dead sailor. I wish the government would re- 
claim it literally, as well in the legal as the agricul- 
tural sense. On the beach are the remains of a brick- 
built landing place. It is not so much cost of money 
as of time and labour that is required to set this house 
of the dead in order. It seems to have been established 
