number is made to
equal one of a greater, by so many as is wanted being fastened to the
belt by a string.--_Buchanan's North American Indians._]

[Footnote 158: It is impossible here to forget (however different were
the circumstances and character of the two warriors) that fine passage
by the splendid historian of Rome, wherein he immortalizes the death and
funeral of the ferocious Attila, in language at once musical and
sublime, and which is probably without an equal in the whole range of
English literature: "His body was solemnly exposed in the midst of the
plain, under a silken pavilion; and the chosen squadrons of the Huns,
wheeling round in measured evolutions, chaunted a funeral song to the
memory of a hero, glorious in his life, invincible in his death, the
father of his people, the scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the
world."]

[Footnote 159: The monument itself is not yet finished; we shall
therefore defer our description of the edifice until it is completed.]

[Footnote 160: It is remarkable that, on inspecting the remains, the
body of Colonel M'Donell was found to be almost entirely
decomposed,--whilst that of the general was still firm and nearly
entire; some of the flesh and lineaments of his martial countenance
being yet visible.]

APPENDIX B.

DANIEL DE LISLE BROCK, ESQ.

BAILIFF OF GUERNSEY.

This able magistrate, the third son of John Brock, Esq., was born in
Guernsey on the 10th December, 1762, and closed a long and useful career
on Saturday evening, the 24th September, 1842, at the age of 79 years
and nearly 10 months. After receiving such rudiments of education as the
island could furnish in those days, he was placed at Alderney, to learn
the French language, under M. Vallatt, a Swiss protestant clergyman, and
a man of talent, who was afterwards rector of St. Peter-in-the-Wood, in
Guernsey. From Alderney he was sent to a school at Richmond, in Surrey,
where he remained only two years, as at the early age of fourteen he
went to Dinan with his father, who died there. The early death of his
parent was an irreparable loss to the son, as it was the cause of his
not returning to school, where he had already shown that he possessed a
vigour of intellect much beyond his years. His two elder brothers were
in the army, and the pardonable fondness of his mother induced her to
retain at home the only one of her sons, who could in some measure
replace the counsels of her husband.

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