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as well as mind, without money and without price. 

 The avenues and paths were planned, as far as possi- 

 ble, to conform to the natural surface of the ground. 

 Curved or winding courses were generally adopted, 

 both for picturesque eifect, and for easy approach to 

 the lots. The avenues for carriages were made about 

 eighteen feet wide, and the footpaths about five, the 

 lots being set back six feet from the paths or avenues. 

 The standard size of lots was fixed at twenty feet by 

 fifteen, which size has never beep changed. Alexander 

 Wadsworth, the civil engineer employed to make the 

 survey of Mount Auburn, in accordance with the plan 

 of Gen. Dearborn, approved by the other members of 

 the sub-committee, in the autumn of 1831 staked out 

 the avenues and paths in that part of the grounds sit- 

 uated east of a line drawn north and south through 

 where the chapel now stands, with the exception of 

 the north-eastern part, which was designed for the ex- 

 perimental garden. 



Gen. Dearborn transplanted from his nurseries in 

 Roxbury a large number of young forest trees, which 

 he distributed through the entire front of the cemetery. 

 A part of these have since been moved and re-arranged, 

 and they are now among the most beautiful ornaments 

 of the place. In view of this and other services ren- 

 dered by him, the Garden and Cemetery Committee, on 

 the 2d of December, 1831, at the instance of Mr. 

 Brimmer, 



44 Voted, That in consideration of the very acceptable ser- 

 vices rendered by Gen. Dearborn at Mount Auburn, and for the 

 assiduity he has manifested in carding into effect the purposes 

 and designs of the committee, the lot selected by him in the 

 grounds appropriated to the cemetery be presented to him, in be- 



