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GRAVE OF L. E. L. 
things, that superfluous furniture should be discarded, in 
order that the aspect should conduce as much as pos- 
sible to the idea of coolness. 
In passing across the square within the walls, an 
object of deep interest presents itself in the little space 
containing all that was mortal of the late Mrs. M‘Lean ; 
the once well-known, amiable and accomplished L. E. L. 
A plain marble slab, bearing the following inscription, is 
placed over the spot : 
Hie jacet sepultum, 
Omne quod mortaie fuit 
Letiti^ Elizabeths McLean, 
Quam egregia ornatam indole, Musis 
Unice amatam. Omniumque amores 
Secum trahentem; in ipso setatis flore. 
Mors immatura rapuit. 
Die Octobris xv., mdcccxxxviii. ^tatis xxxvi. 
Quod spectas viator marmor vanum 
Heu doloris monumentum 
Conjux mserens erexit. 
The beams of the setting sun threw a rich but sub- 
dued colouring over the place, and as we stood in sad 
reflection on the fate of the gifted poetess, some fine 
specimens of the Hirundo Senegalensis, or African 
swallow, fluttered gracefully about, as if to keep watch 
over a spot sacred indeed to the Muses ; while the noise 
of the surf, breaking on the not distant shore, seemed to 
murmer a requiem over departed genius. 
The troops of the garrison consisted of about eighty 
