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leave the Legend, which is rather lengthy, for the next chapter. Emerging from " Bat's Cave," and wending our way amid the same rugged impediments, in process of time we reached our vehicle, and stepping into it, proceeded to visit the ruins of the old government house in the Savannah, the scene of the attack narrated in the " Legend of Ding a Ding Nook," and of a similar attempt in 1654. After driving for a short distance over pasture land, exhibiting a dreary view of brown and withered herbage, the effects of the late dry weather, (rendered more striking by the contrast of the deep green of the different trees,) which crackled under the horses' feet, we arrived at another tangled maze of shrub and brushwood, where it was again necessary to proceed on foot, in order to prosecute-our intended search. Forcing our way through this almost impenetrable thicket, rendered in some places more impervious by the twinings and intertwinings of the withe, (a native parasite,) stooping to avoid some straggling branch, or springing over a thorny bank, we gained an open glade; and walking up the.gentle acclivity, stood by the side of the ruins. They consist of what appears to have been a probably the first built in the island, and a low stone, marking the foundation of the government Within this last-mentioned ruin stand two tombs, scriptions upon which are as follows :— Antigua. Here lieth the body of MRS. ELIZABETH WARNER, Late wife of Edward Warner, Of this island, Esq. She was a woman of exemplary piety ; She was the best of wives, The tenderest of mothers, The faithfulest of friends, And of a most charitable, compassionate disposition, Whose death was generally and deservedly lamented By the good people that knew her. She departed this life the thirteenth of August, 1723, In the 37th year of her age.
cistern, wall of house. the in-