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NECROPOLIS NEWFOUNDLAND. 



bequeathed 4,000 to the Glasgow Royal Infirm- 

 ary. The point from which the view of the Ne- 

 cropolis is taken is a little to the north of the 

 road which leads into the cemetery. On the right, 

 a portion of the ancient cathedral of the city is 

 seen (described in the article Glasgow, q.v.) The 

 bridge across the ravine was erected expressly as a 

 passage into the Necropolis, no other entrance 

 promising to combine so much beauty with pic- 

 turesque effect. It is a spacious Roman arch of 

 sixty feet span, from a design by Mr David 

 11, million, and is called, somewhat affectedly, 

 " The Bridge of Sighs." The foundation stone 

 was laid, with much solemnity, on the 18th Oct. 

 1833. At the north-east corner of the bridge is 

 this inscription, from the pen of the then dean of 

 guild, Mr Hutchison : " This bridge was erected 

 by the Merchants' House of Glasgow, to afford a 

 proper entrance to their new cemetery, combining 

 convenient access to the grounds, with suitable 

 decoration to the venerable cathedral and the sur- 

 rounding scenery ; to unite the tombs of many 

 generations who have gone before with the resting- 

 places destined for generations yet unborn ; where 

 the ashes of all shall repose until the resurrection 

 of the just, when that, which is sown a natural 

 body, shall be raised a spiritual body, when this 

 corruptible must put on incorrupt ion, when this 

 mortal must put on immortality, when death is 



swallowed up in victory, A. D. MDCCCxxxril. 

 Blessed is the man whotrusteth in God, and whose 

 hope the Lord is." In the grand f'uyado at the 

 east end of the bridge, which is to be seen in the 

 engraving, is another inscription, composed by 

 Principal Macfarlan, to the following effect: "The 

 Necropolis, or ornamented public cemetery, was 

 constructed by the Merchants'-House of Glasgow, 

 in their property, to supply the accommodation re- 

 quired by a rapidly increasing population, and, by 

 embellishing the place of sepulture, to invest with 

 more soothing associations that affectionate recol- 

 lection of the departed which is cherished by those 

 who survive. A. D. MDCCCXXXIII. ' Even from 

 the tomb the voice of nature cries.'" The gate- 

 way of the fa9ade, like that of the Jews' burying 

 ground, has a scripture paraphrase (the fourth 

 of the Scottish church) interwoven with its 

 rails. 



We cannot, of course, enter here into any de- 

 tail of the numerous objects of interest which this 

 Necropolis presents. Its highly picturesque situ- 

 ation, overlooking the venerable cathedral and the 

 old surrounding burying-ground, which the author 

 of Waverley has so finely described, its beautiful 

 walks and carriage-roads, its botanical curiosities, 

 consisting of ornamental shrubberies, inclosing many 

 rare and interesting plants, its varied and ever 

 accumulating monuments, forming lanes and streets 





to which the eye sees no termination, all must be 

 left to the personal investigation or the fancy of 

 the reader. Only a few years have elapsed since 

 the place was opened, and yet how many have 

 already found in it their last abode how many 

 honoured names can be already traced among its 

 epitaphs! Every year must add to its melancholy 

 attractions, and the mind gets bewildered in fancy- 

 ing what it may be a century hence. In some 

 beautiful verses by a lady on the Glasgow Necro- 

 polis, we find the writer thus prophesying: 



" Here may the Bard of Hope* repose 



The laurel's classic shades among; 

 And here, when death her strains shall close, 



May sleep the Queen of Tragic Song.f 



' And He.j who late on Scottish lyre 



The echoes woke of ancient time, 

 And 6un_', to notes of martial fire, 



The death-doomed Harold's runic rhyme. 



* Thomas Campbell, a native of Glasgow. 



t Joanna Baillie, a native of the district. 



t William Mothers ell, a native of Glasfjnw. the author of 

 " Jcsnnie Morrison " and other beautiful ballads, in whose 

 case the poet'8 pmphpcy has been, alas! too soon fulfilled, for 

 he already lie* within the walls of the Necropolis. 



" And other lofty names shall shine 



Rororded by their country's pride; 

 For oft hath genius' light divine 



Beamed o'er the City of the Clyde." 



NEWFOUNDLAND, (a.) Newfoundland isle, 

 lying on the north-east side of the gulf of St Law- 

 rence, between the parallels of 46 40' to 59 31 

 north latitude, and the meridians of 52 44' to 59 

 31' longitude west of Greenwich, is bounded on 

 the whole eastern shore by the Atlantic ocean ; on 

 the north-east and north it is separated from the 

 coast of Labrador by the Strait of Belleisle (which 

 is about fifty miles long by twelve broad); on the 

 north-west by the Gulf of St Lawrence, and on 

 the south-west it approaches at Cape Ray towards 

 Breton isle, so as to form the main entrance from 

 the Atlantic Ocean into the Gulf of St Lawrence. 

 Newfoundland is the nearest part of America to 

 Europe, the distance from St John's in Newfound- 

 land, to Port Valentia on the west coast of Ire- 

 land, being 1656 miles. Its extreme length mea- 

 sured on a curve from Cape Race to Griguet Bay, 

 is about 420 miles; its widest part, from Cape Ray 

 to Cape Bonavista, is about 300 miles, and cxclud- 



