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Voted, That Messrs. Cook and Pratt be a committee to make suit- 

 able appointments of marshals and other officers, and to arrange all 

 matters of police for tlie occasion. 



The sub-committee first above named announce to the Society that 

 they have, as far as practicable, at present, performed the service 

 assigned them, and that an address, at the solemn consecration of the 

 Cemetery, will be delivered by the Hon. JOSEPH STORY; the 

 Prayers will be offered by the Rev. Dr. WARE and the Rev. Mr. 

 PIERPONT ; and an original Hymn will be prepared by the Rev. 

 Mr. PIERPONT. The other arrangements will be announced as 

 soon as completed. 



The site, selected for the performance of the consecration cere- 

 monies, was a deep circular dell, formed by the united bases of four 

 beautiful hills, in the south-western portion of the Cemetery grounds. 

 In the centre is a small pool supplied by perennial springs, and 

 from its margin, the acclivities, on three sides, gracefully rise, for 

 more than a hundred feet in extent, presenting a magnificent am- 

 phitheatre, sufficiently capacious to accommodate from six to eight 

 thousand spectators. The flanks and summits of each eminence 

 being covered with majestic forest trees, shrubs, and " many a wood 

 flower wild," an area of more than six hundred feet in circuit, 

 extending up the broad escarpments, for at least seventy feet, was 

 divested of the under wood, and lined with seven ranges of seats for 

 the accommodation of the audience. Near the northern margin of the 

 miniature lake a rostrum was formed, a few feet above the surface of 

 the water, for the orator, clergy, and officers of the Horticultural 

 Society. This was decorated with evergreens, giving it the appear- 

 ance of a natural bower, open towards the south. On the declivity of 

 the fourth hill, and on the right of the rostrum, ranges of seats were 

 placed, as an orchestra, for the band of music, choristers, and the 

 various committees of arrangements. 



The approach from the main road leading to Watertown, was by a 

 broad and umbrageous avenue to the foot of the hill, which closes the 

 dale of consecration on the north. This small eminence was thickly 

 overgrown with pines and cedars, but the lower limbs having been 

 pruned, the symmetrical countour of the mound was disclosed, and 

 it assumed the appearance of an ancient tumulus, reared to the memory 

 of some great chieftain, like thatof Achilles, of Ajax, and of Patroclus, on 

 the plains of Troy. In the rear, under the shade of a stately grove of 

 walnuts, where the main avenue divides and gracefully sweeps round 

 the lofty hills to the east and west, the company descended from 

 their carriages, and entered the secluded and romantic silvan theatre, 

 by two foot paths, which wound through lonely vales of arching 

 verdure. 



The day was cloudless, and the deep, blue vault of heaven cano- 

 pied the immense area with a dome of more resplendent grandeur 

 than all that genius can conceive, or art accomplish ; whispering 

 zephyrs rustled the many-twinkling leaves of those towering groves, 

 which crowned the surrounding heights ; the glorious sun gilded, with 

 his cheering beamiS, the smiling landscape ; while, far and wide over 

 the deep and expanded glen, a thickened, flickering shadow screened, 

 with balmy freshness, the assembled multitude, who listened, with 

 intense and elevated thoughts, to the fervent prayer, the eloquent 



