Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . placed over his grave. This cenotaph is erectedat a short distance from the Russian cemetery; and close to the public is built of a compact, white freestone, found at some distance, and is aboutthirty feet in height, surrounded by a wall of the same stone, seven feet high,by two hundred in circumference. Within this wall, in w
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . placed over his grave. This cenotaph is erectedat a short distance from the Russian cemetery; and close to the public is built of a compact, white freestone, found at some distance, and is aboutthirty feet in height, surrounded by a wall of the same stone, seven feet high,by two hundred in circumference. Within this wall, in which is a beautifulcast-iron gate, a fine row of Lombardy poplars has been planted, which, whenfully grown, will greatly adorn the monument. On the pedestal is a Russianinscription of the following purport:— Died, January 28, 1790, aged 65, HOWABD. The sun-dial is represented near the summit of the pillar, but with this re-markable circumstance—that the only divisions of time it exhibits are the hoursfrom ten to two, as if to intimate that a considerable portion of the morning oflife is past ere we enter on the discharge of its active duties; and that, withmany, the performance of them is closed even at an early hour after the me-ridian of their JOHN HUNTER. * JOHN HUNTER, one of the greatest anatomists of modern times, was boraJuly 14, 1728, at Kilbride, county of Lanark, Scotland. The early life of thisremarkable man formed a strange introduction to the scientific eminence towhich he eventually attained. His father having died when he was about tenyears old, he seems scarcely to have received any further school education;but was allowed to spend his time as he liked, till at last he was V>und appren-tice to a cabinet-maker in Glasgow, whom one of his sisters Had married. JOHN HUNTER. 311 After some time, however, this person failed—an event which at the time wasprobably regarded as a severe family misfortune ; but it turned out to be a bles-sing in disguise. H
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