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begun once more to raife its head within thisIiland.

The fouth veilry from the eaft, on die north fide,contains an infciiption in fuch.»exalted fentiments,vet, at the fame time, fo very fimple and modeft,that it is impoffible to pafs it by. It is an infcrip-tion to the memory of Thomas Crouch, who be-queathed 1 'eyer.al hundred yolunies to the College .

Aperiet Deus Tumulos, et educet, Nos dc Sepulchris.

Qualis eram, Dies ifthsec cumVenerit, fcies.

Terr* creditus die 301110. Augufti,

Annoque a nato Domino 1679.

The Spectator, in the 7th Vol. No. 518, intro-duces an epitaph, which bears the neared refem-blancc to the above. It is in thefe words:

“ Hie jacet R. C. in expeilatione diei fupremi. Qualis“ erat, dies ifte indicabit.”

And upon which the following juft remark ismade:

“ The thought of it is ferious, and, in my opi-“ nion, the fineft that I ever met with upon this“ occafion. It is ufual, after having told us the“ name ot the perfon who lies interred, to launchH 2

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