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made use of on that occasion," a man called " Tindal took 

 a lease thereof, and converted it into a burial-ground for 

 the use of Dissenters." As late as 1756 it appears to 

 have been known as " Tindal's Burial-ground." The 

 name Bunhill Fields was given to that part of Finsbury 

 Fields, on to which quantities of bones were taken from 

 St. Paul's in 1549. It is said "above a thousand cart- 

 loads of human bones" were deposited there. No 

 wonder the ghastly name of " bone hill," corrupted into 

 Bunhill, has clung to the place. At the present time 

 the gravestones here are undisturbed, and more respect 

 has been shown to them than to the bones in the six- 

 teenth century. Asphalt paths meander through a forest 

 of monuments, and a few seats are placed in the shade 

 of some of the trees. Those who live in this poor 

 and busy district no doubt make much use of these 

 places of rest, but the visitor is only brought to this 

 depressing, gloomy spot on a pilgrimage to the tomb 

 of John Bunyan. He rests near the centre of the 

 ground, under a modern effigy. Not far off is the 

 tomb of Dr. Isaac Watts, whose hymns are repeated 

 wherever the British tongue is spoken, and near him lies 

 the author of " Robinson Crusoe," Daniel Defoe. This 

 quaint old enclosure opens off the City Road, opposite 

 Wesley's Chapel, and on the western side it is skirted 

 by Bunhill Row. But a few yards distant is another 

 graveyard of very different aspect, as it contains only 

 one stone, and that a very small one, with the name of 

 George Fox, who died in 1690. The other graves in 

 this, the " Friends' Burial-ground," never having been 

 marked in any way, it has the appearance of a dismal 

 little garden, like the approach or " gravel sweep " to 

 a suburban villa. But it is neatly kept. 



