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chap, and to strew the place with flowers. Ihis 
viii. , . . , 
> design is so contrary to the earnest request ot 
Mr. Howard, and at the same time such a 
violation of the dignity due to his remains, that 
every friend to his memory will join in wishing 
it may never be fulfilled. Count Potocki was 
absent during the time we remained in that 
part of the world, or we should have ventured 
to remonstrate : we could only therefore entrust 
our petitions to a third person, who promised 
to convey them to him after our departure. 
The distance from Cherson to Nicholaef is only 
sixty-two versts, or rather more than forty-one 
miles. At the distance of five versts from the 
former place, the road passes close to the 
Tomb of Howard. It may be supposed we did 
not halt with indifference to view the hallowed 
spot. “ To abstract the mind from all local 
emotion, would be impossible if it were endea- 
voured, and it would be foolish if it were 
possible. Whatever withdraws us from the 
power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, 
the distant, or the future, predominate over the 
present ; advances us in the dignity of thinking 
beings. Far be from me, and from my friends, 
that frigid philosophy which might conduct us 
indifferent or unmoved over any ground that 
has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or 
