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On the front of tlie gate-way is this sublime profession of faith 

 from Job, xix. 



" / knotv that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at 

 the latter day upon the earth ; and though worms destroy this 

 hody, yet in my jiesh shall I see God." 



CJn the right pilaster is the following sentence from the Wisdom 

 of Solomon, iii. iv. 



" Yet is their hope full of immortality ." 



On the highest part of the inclosure, where there is now a 

 small chapel, is to be reared a pyramid two hundred feet high, in 

 the centre of which will be a temple for religious ceremonies. An 

 extensive square, on the left of the main avenue, is appropriated 

 as a common burial-place for the poor; and on the right, the Jews 

 have a large grave-yard; the remainder of the land has been 

 divided into fifty-seven compartments, by the intersection of the 

 numerous avenues, which have been formed in the style of modern 

 landscape and picturesque planting. 



The poor are buried at the public expense; but that numerous 

 class of persons who live comfortably, by their own continual in- 

 dustry, yet, not having acquired an independency, were consider- 

 ed worthy of the kind attention of the government; nevertheless 

 it was not considered that they were entitled to a gratuitous in- 

 terment, because the procurement of a sepulchre was a debt of 

 consanguinity, of relationship, of gratitude or friendship, which 

 those should discharge who inherit the property of the deceased. 

 Still their humble situation prohibited an extravagant expendi- 

 ture ; but their virtues, the usual companions of the middling and 

 laborious portion of society, and their sentiments of affection im- 

 periously prescribed that they should not forget, in the night of 

 the tomb, those whom they had always loved ; it was, therefore, 

 necessary to enable them to discharge this debt of the heart. 

 The administration, attentive to its duties, prepared for them iso- 

 lated places of burial, where they could be assured of an undis- 

 turbed sepulchre on the payment of fifty francs for each succes- 

 sive term of five years. The third class of persons who are 

 interred in the cemetery, are those who purchase a perpetual 

 possession in a site for a sepulchre ; but not less than two square 

 metres are conveyed for an adult's grave, and one for that of a 

 child under seven years of age. The price is 125 francs per 

 square metre ; the cost, therefore, of a grave of two metres, is 

 250 francs, to which are to be added the fees, amounting to ISy^^^^ 

 francs, making the whole sum 268^^^(5- francs. 



The special management of the establishment is committed to 

 a superintendent, who is charged with the duty of causing the 

 laws and regulations to be carried into effect, under the immedi- 

 ate direction of the Inspector General of Cemeteries, and to keep 

 a register of the interments. 



The superintendent has under him a principal grave-digger 



