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cold clay. \Vhcn the benediction was pronounced, the 

 body was removed, the organ playing the " Dead March 

 in Saul." A long procession followed to Mount Auburn, 

 where the remains were buried in one of the most beau- 

 tiful parts of the cemetery, very near the grave of Agas- 

 siz's friend, Felton. The monument erected over his 

 grave is symbolic of one of his most remarkable dis- 

 coveries. It is simply an Alpine boulder, weighing 

 twenty-five hundred pounds, from the moraine of the 

 glacier of the Aar. This granite block was selected by 

 his cousin, M. Auguste Mayor, of Neuchatel, from the 

 lateral moraine, not far from the spot where the cele- 

 brated "Hotel des Neuchatelois " once stood. It was 

 carried with great difficulty, "a force de bras," from 

 the glacier to the Bernese Oberland village of Imhof, 

 a distance of twenty-five miles, thence on a wagon to 

 the railroad station of Thun. Around this superb boul- 

 der on which are engraved on one side the words, 

 " Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz," and on the other, 

 "Born at Motier, Switzerland, May 26, 1807; died at 

 Cambridge, Mass., December 14, 1873" -there are 

 several pine trees which formerly grew near the 

 celebrated boulder called " Pierre-a-Bot," above the 

 city of Neuchatel, and which were successfully trans- 

 planted, and now shelter the Agassiz lot. 



