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open spot; in the middle of it we beheld a statue, bearing in one hand an urn of black marble—we approached by the help of our cutlasses, and read the following inscription on the pedestal.
HIC JACET,
GODOFREDUS HAUSSINGERUS,
PECCATOR.
(Here lieth Godfrey Haussinger the Sinner.)
"A little lower down we perceived a cross engraved in the stone, and under it,
A. D. 1603.
"We stared at each other in dumb amazement, and being already too much fatigued, we did not like to work our way farther into the garden and returned."
"Gentlemen,"
