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MEMOIR OP BRUCE. 
in so many distant lands — slipt ; lie fell down several 
steps, broke some of bis fingers, pitched on his head, 
and expired. Every attempt to restore animation 
was unavailing, the vital spark had fled. Four 
days after his death, the body was deposited in the 
church-yard of Larbert, in a tomb which Bruce had 
built for his wife and his infant child. In passing 
through that village, the eye of the traveller is ar- 
rested by a monument, plain in its architecture, but 
somewhat more conspicuous irom its position than 
the rest. It marks the spot where reposes the dust 
of the celebrated explorer of the fountains of the 
Nile. On the south side is the following inscrip- 
tion: — ■ 
IN THIS TOMB ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS 
OP 
JAMES BRUCE, ESQ. OF KINNAIED, 
WHO DIED ON THE 27TH OF APRIL, 1794, 
IN THE 64th TEAR OF HIS AGE. 
HIS LIFE WAS SPENT IN PERFORMING 
USEFUL AND SPLENDID ACTIONS : 
HE EXPLORED MANY DISTANT REGIONS : 
HE DISCOVERED THE SOURCES OF THE NILE: 
HE TRAVERSED THE DESERTS OF ARABIA. 
HE WAS AN AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND, 
AN INDULGENT PARENT, 
AN ARDENT LOVER OF HIS COUNTRY. 
BY THE UNANIMOUS VOICE OF MANKIND, 
HIS NAME IS ENROLLED WITH THOSE 
WHO WERE CONSPICUOUS 
FOR GENIUS, FOR VALOUR, AND FOR VIRTUE. 
