superb temple of the richest white marble, supported by ten columns, having in the interior à recumbent statue on an altar-tomb, with her arms and cornet. From the tomb of La Place rises an obelisk, crowned with an urn, and ornamented by a star and palm branches encircling inscriptions and eulogies on his works. A splendid sepulchral chapel, surmounted by a temple, is erected to the memory of General Foy, whose statue is represented in the act of haranguing the people. The military taste of France is seen in the pomp and lavish expense, with which the sepulchres of her chiefs are adorned. Marshal Davoust has a pyramid of granite; Massena, one of white marble, 21 feet in height; Le Fevre, a magnificent sarcophagus, where two figures of Fame are crowning his bust, and a serpent, the emblem of immortality, encircling his sword; while Ney, the "bravest of the brave," sleeps unmarked, save by a single cypress.
"My people."
It was not without surprise that I found so many from my own dear land, in this receptacle of the dead. Five States, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Tennessee, have sent a delegation of their sons and daughters to the sepulchres of a foreign land. The names of each, though almost all personally unknown, touched the chords of tender sympathy,
