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and sixteen private carriages, besides a great many on foot. -- Poor Cathcart the moment he heard of his death returned to St Louis, and was so shocked, and felt so much for poor George that he became ill himself, otherwise he intended to come to me at Halifax and then return home. -- He remained at St. Louis 3 weeks, and only left two days before I arrived, as he never dreamt of my coming there, he had written to me all particulars, and concerning what he left in the way of property. These I shall find on my return to Halifax, and I will send them on to you by the next packet, -- I send you this merely to set your mind at ease, and to assure you that had the poor fellow been under your own roof, he could not have met with more kindness. Cathcart had erected a simple white marble monument, and all I could do, was to have the space where the grave is completely bricked up with a large slab and the monument put on the top -- the whole enclosed in with an iron railing. There is an acacia tree at the head of the grave from which I broke off a small branch. This shall be sacred in my keeping until I can give it you myself. -- In gt i.e., great haste your affectionate son

Augustus Ruxton