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ola pressional skill are y and devotion to the work stoutly Pitest med senioUS ifficulties from the curd bove the cemetery was composed of the tcompot enough to stand alone, and the shuts Lned and shored up with heavy timbers as Lafage was bad in places and there The vet of one of the baldings were und aus mephiti odors were encounyeated in a'ati once.

one of the y uds to a depth of 18 feet. acal had never been distur&d This fict disproving the policons so often made to the ns were found lyarg abo w a foot ipit, generally the other, and in some places there were three. of the report of Citizen Richer, hereinbefore rớc thạt tre dead were buried in a fosse (trench), which they were not interred in separate graves and were of a Cms led to the conclusion that there would be very few found, as they ecal I be afforded only by person. in easy fees. 1 at few vestiges were lit of the wooden coff.rs.

Ta more lig safts w te sank in the yards and two in the Rue Peles, making five in all. Þay and might gangs of worked, and active progress was made. Galleries were y Erection and "soundings" were made between them con tools adapted to this purpose, so that no bien conn vissed

fon squares explored was the one on the right of the e to the cemetery. Iire the excavators encountered a in te layers, superposed. They were placed irregface down and others in their sides, in one liyer ¡iled in the one above cro‘swise, just as one would pile cord 1, so close together tha, they could not have been Nexplanation of the peculiar condition of this in mtery sug rested itself until one day I cam Across mg by Béricourt representing the corpses of the Swiss

Guard killed in defending the Tuileries being hurriedly thrown into carts to be hauled away for burial. As it is known that most of them were Protestants, it is altogether likely that they were interred in the Saint Louis Cemetery in the confused manner indicated by the position of the skeletons found there. This slaughter occurred August 10, 1792, twenty-one days after Paul Jones's burial. If the above inference be correct, it furnishes another proof that although the cemetery was closed soon after his death there was plenty of room left for his coffin at the time of his burial, for the reason that so many bodies were interred there afterwards.

I had given orders that if not present when a leaden coffin was discovered I should be sent for at once, as I was desirous of superintending personally the search for an inscription plate and any other indications that might aid in the identification.

On February 22 the first leaden coffin was discovered. The round projecting end containing the head had been broken off and the skull was detached from the body. The remains of a water barrel were found near by. As the cemetery, after being closed, had been used as a market garden, the barrel had evidently been sunk in this spot to catch the water drained from the courtyard, and in excavating for it the head of the coffin had been knocked off. The outer wooden coffin had nearly disappeared, and the inscription plate it bore had fallen on the lid of the leaden coffin. This plate was of copper, and had become so brittle that when lifted it broke and a portion of it crumbled to pieces. It was so corroded and incrusted that no portion of the inscription could be read. Handling it with great care, I proceeded with it in person to Messrs. André & Son, the well-known decipherers and restorers of ancient enamels and art objects, who promised to apply all their skill to the task of reading it.

By the next day the Messrs. André had cleansed the coffin plate sufficiently to be able to read distinctly the following portion of the inscription:

"* * * M E Anglois, 20 de May 1790 Ans." The French word Mai was spelled in old style with a y. No further attention was therefore paid to this coffin, and the search, which had not been interrupted, continued.

On March 23 a second leaden coffin was discovered, with a plate easily read, bearing the words "Richard Hay, esq., died in Paris the 29th January, 1785."

On March 31 a third leaden coffin was unearthed. This, like the others, was of a shape resembling that of the mummy coffins, a form quite common then, gradually widening from the feet to the shoulders, with a round projection at the upper end, which contained the head. It was much superior in solidity and workmanship to the others.