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as to be submitted for inspection, to exhibit the general 

 outlines of .the projected improvements ; but consid- 

 erable labor was yet required in clearing out the prin- 

 cipal avenues and footpaths before the sites of the 

 public and private cemetery squares could be definitely 

 established, and designated on the plan. As the season 

 for rural labor was far advanced, it was not considered 

 expedient to commence the construction of the avenues 

 before the spring; but they could be divested of the 

 underwood, and the whole of the grounds so far cleared 

 up, as to give them the appearance of a park, within 

 the autumn. It was thought that the lots might be 

 assigned within twenty days. Models and drawings of 

 the Egyptian gateway, and of a Gothic and a Grecian 

 tower, one of which it was proposed to erect on the 

 summit of the highest hill, were offered for examina- 

 tion. The committee had been cheered in the dis- 

 charge of its duties by the deep interest manifested for 

 the success of an undertaking so important to the pros- 

 perity of the Horticultural Society, and so honorable to 

 the country. The repojt concluded with the statement 

 of the plans of the committee for the rapid progress 

 and speedy development of the cemetery and garden, in 

 regard to both which they indulged the most sanguine 

 expectations. At this meeting it was voted that the 

 Garden and Cemetery Committee be instructed to ap- 

 propriate such funds as might be realized from the sale 

 of lots in the cemetery for the erection of such build- 

 ings as they might see proper. 



Gen. Dearborn, the chairman of the sub-committee 

 to lay out the grounds, devoted himself to this work 

 most assiduously, spending the greater part of the 

 autumn at Mount Auburn, in laboring with hands 



