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Dearborn, and by Miss Wyeth, who lived in the house 

 where he dined, and was a constant witness of his un- 

 requited toil, confirming the opinion of Mr. Russell, that 

 the practical success of Mount Auburn is due more to 

 the far-seeing, persistent, and personal labors of Gen. 

 Dearborn than to those of any other person. His daily 

 private journal, kept at this period, indicates, that, for 

 more than one season, he spent the greater part of his 

 time in active mental and physical service at Mount 

 Auburn. 



Comparatively few of the avenues and paths laid out 

 at Mount Auburn in the summer and autumn of 1831 

 were constructed at that time ; but in the following 

 spring most of them were completed, affording a car- 

 riage-drive of nearly three miles, and an equal extent 

 of foot-walks, which rendered it the pleasantest place 

 of resort in the vicinity of Boston. By midsummer 

 carriages passed in great numbers to every part of the 

 ground then owned by the Society, and ascended to the 

 summit of the hill. Early in August the Garden and 

 Cemetery Committee caused other avenues to be laid out 

 and constructed, and a road to be made on the eastern 

 side of the cemetery, which united the highways on the 

 south and north-east of the grounds, thus completing 

 the line of centre communication with the main road 

 from Boston to Watertown, whereby a new and most 

 interesting approach to the cemetery was opened from 

 Brighton, Brookline, Eoxbury, and other towns south of 

 Charles River, as well as from Boston. 



In the month of May, Messrs. Cook and Bond were 

 appointed a committee to decide upon the form of a fence 

 to enclose the grounds at Mount Auburn. A contract 

 was soon afterwards made for. a substantial fence, seven 



