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of pure old age, for there are none of those infirmi- 

 ties that exist in other lands ; and if there are slight 

 infirmities, the heat destroys them, and so there is 

 no need of a physician there ;" but the times are 

 much better for physicians now, and Doctor Cabot, 

 if he had been able to attend to it, might have en- 

 tered into an extensive gratuitous practice. Ad- 

 joining the front of the church, and connecting 

 with the convent, was a great charnel-house, along 



the wall of which was a row of skulls,. At the top 

 of a pillar forming the abutment of the wall of the 



