closely companioned by tablets to three other modern
scientists, Joule, Adams, and Stokes, attracts notice, and the next
moment we tread upon the graves of Darwin and Herschel, all placed
purposely in the vicinity of Sir Isaac Newton. Doctors of medicine as
well as men of science will be found in the nave. We have already
referred to the fashionable Dr. Mead, and his no less popular intimate,
Dr. Freind, is also here. Freind's brother was headmaster of Westminster
School, and many of the Latin inscriptions on contemporary monuments were
written by him, including the one under his brother's bust; so many in
fact that Pope, whose own pen was ever busy commemorating his cronies
with fulsome laudations, such as those on Kneller and Craggs, wrote the
following mocking lines:--

Freind, for your epitaphs I'm grieved
Where still so much is said,
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.

The jibing prophecy has been literally fulfilled, for these Latin
epitaphs are most certainly never read, {120} while Pope's verses, which
are usually in English, stand a better chance. Close to us on the
right-hand wall is the bust of a great modern geologist, Sir Charles
Lyell, which stands above the monument of his distinguished forerunner,
Woodward, who is often called the founder of English geology. Opposite
is that of Dean Buckland, who was twice President of the Geological
Society and a distinguished authority in that science. The windows along
the north side commemorate celebrated civil engineers, Stephenson, Locke,
Brunel, and Trevithick. To the genius of these men and to James Watt,
whose statue we saw in St. Paul's Chapel, the wonderful railway and
steamship system of modern days was, in the first instance, due. Few,
indeed, are the arts, crafts, and sciences of the last two centuries
which cannot claim some representative in the Abbey. Thus, as we cross
over to the west cloister door on our way out, we tread upon the graves
of the father of English watchmakers, Thomas Tompion, and his clever
apprentice, George Graham; near them lies Telford, the builder of the
Menai Bridge; close to him is Robert Stephenson, the designer of the
tubular bridge across the Menai Straits, who was buried beside Telford,
twenty-five years later, at his own request.

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We have brought our walk round the inside of the church to a conclusion,
but in order to complete the circuit of the outside, such of the monastic