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was Superintendent Francis H. Smith of V. M. I., 

 accompanied the cortege as far as Goshen Pass. In 

 going from Lexington to what was then the nearest 

 station on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, one passed 

 through this lovely gorge where the North Anna River 

 forces its way through the mountains some fifteen miles 

 from Lexington. When the cortege reached the Pass, 

 the carriages were stopped and members of the family 

 gathered branches of the rhododendron and laurel and 

 bright yellow maple, and decked the hearse with them, 

 as Maury had requested. 



They arrived in Richmond on Saturday, September 

 27. The burial in Hollywood Cemetery was private, 

 Maury's last resting-place being betw^een the tombs of 

 Ex-Presidents Monroe and Tyler, on a beautiful knoll 

 overlooking the James River. 'The lot we have in 

 Hollywood", wrote Maury's son Matthew, ''I Hke par- 

 ticularly because it faces the bright green country and 

 overlooks the rapids of the James River, the sleeper 

 there being always lulled by the murmur of running 

 water, a sound which he so loved to hear". Maury's 

 monument in Hollyw^ood Cemetery bears the following 

 inscription: In Memory of Matthew Fontaine Maury — 

 Born in Spottsylvania Co., Virginia January 14th, 1806 

 — Died in Lexington, Virginia February 1st, 1873 — "All 

 is well", Maury. On another side of the shaft are these 

 words: Entered the Navy of the United States 1825 — 

 That of the Confederate States 1861 — Author of 

 "Maury's SaiHng Directions" and "The Physical Geog- 

 raphy of the Sea". 



