"A nephew of that Mr. Anderson's who was with the hapless
youth that day he died says that, as far as he can gather from the
relations of friends that he remembers, and of that same uncle in
particular, it is one hundred and five years next month (that is
September, 1823) since that event happened; and I think it likely
that this gentleman's information is correct. But sundry other
people, much older than he, whom I have consulted, pretend that
it is six or seven years more. They say they have heard that Mr.
James Anderson was then a boy ten years of age; that he lived to
an old age, upwards of fourscore, and it is two and forty years
since he died. Whichever way it may be, it was about that period
some way: of that there is no doubt.
"It so happened that two young men, William Shiel and W.
Sword, were out on an adjoining height this summer, casting
peats, and it came into their heads to open this grave in the
wilderness, and see if there were any of the bones of the suicide
of former ages and centuries remaining. They did so, but opened
only one half of the grave, beginning at the head and about the
middle at the same time.
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