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The Editor is desirous of preserving a short memorial to a relation, whose kindnesses to him were unceasing from infancy to the fifty-fifth year of his age; and to a servant whom he has ever regarded with gratitude as the one whose precepts and instructions he imbibed with the utmost pleasure and delight, and whose tales of the times of old remain deeply impressed upon his mind.

Time rolls his ceaseless course! the race of yore, That danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our wondering childhood legends store Of strange adventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be!