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Rh : and what is very remarkable, a large tiger, eemingly diveted of the ferocity of his nature, comes from his den at the that of the hill, every Monday and Wedneday, to this very monument. without moleting any peron he meets on the way, (even children: were not afraid to approach him) and weeps with his tail, the dut form the lower part of the tomb, in which, it is uppoed, are enhrined the remains of ame pious character, who had; been there interred at a remote period of time. The people have a profound veneration for it, which has not been a little increaed by the udden and untimely fate of a Lieutenant of Artillery, who came hither to indulge an idle curioty,