40 years."
Eternity is usually, as we have seen, represented by an endless ring—often as a serpent. It is so in the Southfleet sketch, in which appear the two horns of the archangels, and the living torch, with some other objects which are not quite clearly defined.
FIG. 46.—AT SOUTHFLEET.
"To John Palmer, died 1781, aged 61 years."
In another selection from Wilmington the winged hour-glass may be read as the flight of time, the cloud is probably the future life, and the bones below convey their customary moral.
FIG. 47.—AT WILMINGTON.
"To Ann Parsons, died Nov. 3, 1777, aged
60 years."