The signification of the four balls I am unable to suggest, unless they be connected in some way with the planetary system and point man's insignificance. They appear to emanate from a cloud resting upon the hour-glass, and may help the other emblems in symbolizing time and eternity. The nickering candle is also of doubtful interpretation. It may mean the brevity of life; it can hardly be needed, in the presence of the skull, to indicate death. The candle is sometimes employed alone, occasionally extinguished. At Woolwich there is an instance in which the candle is in the act of being put out. FIG. 71.--AT WOOLWICH. "To Siston Champion, died 27th Feb. 1749-50 (a few days after the birth of her child), aged 28 years." The candle is indeed commonly used as a simile of life's uncertainty in all countries, and it may be that where it is represented in a state of burning it may be meant as a lesson on the number of our days. It is seen with the skulls in the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Deptford, and other places. FIG. 72.--AT DEPTFORD. "To William Firth, died 1724, aged 21 years." In West Ham Churchyard may be seen the figure of the kissing cherubs rather prettily rendered, but to be found in various forms in many places, and always expressive of affection. FIG. 73.--AT WEST HAM. "To Sarah Moore, died 1749." Wanstead Churchyard is remarkable for the abundance and originality of its old gravestones. Here is one (Fig. 74) which carries more distinctly the fanciful idea suggested at West Ham (page 34, Fig. 63); flowers and foliage, and even fruit, combining with the lowered torch and summoning trumpet to tell of life beyond the grave. FIG. 74.--AT WANSTEAD. "To William Bosely, died 1712, aged 79." [Illustration: FIG. 70. BARKING.] [Illustration: FIG. 71. WOOLWICH.] [Illustration: FIG. 72. DEPTFORD.] [Illustration: FIG. 73. WEST HAM.] [Illustration: FIG. 74. WANSTEAD.] [Illustration: FIG. 75. WANSTEAD.] There are several other variations of the same symbol in the elegant enclosure at Wanstead Church; but the most remarkable of the old stones is one which has at the top corners two projecting skulls, the one facing nearly to the front and the other in profile, both standing out in full relief, carefully and accurately sculptured, but too ghastly to be beautiful. This one, the Richmond example, and the two at Ripley constitute my entire experience of full relief work on a mere gravestone. FIG. 75.--AT WANSTEAD. "To William Swan, died 1715, aged 16 years." Other churchyards in the locality we found less fruitful, and taking rail to Buckhurst Hill, we struck across Epping Forest to Chingford, also without profit, and walked on to Walthamstow, where another of the enfoliated death's-head pictures was found; the novelty being two skulls with ivy sprays, symbolical of evergreen recollections. FIG. 76.--AT WALTHAMSTOW. "To Jane Redfern, died 1734, aged 52 years,"