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new purchases of land. The whole number of lots 

 sold in the cemetery at that time was three hundred 

 and fifty-one ; of these, a hundred and seventy-five 

 lots were sold in 1832, seventy-six in 1833, and a 

 hundred in 1834. There were ninety-three inter- 

 ments the preceding year ; eighteen tombs were built ; 

 sixteen monuments were erected; and sixty-eight lots 

 were turfed, and otherwise ornamented. 



The committee further stated, that finding the 

 grounds at Mount Auburn were visited by unusual 

 concourses of people on Sundays, and that the injuries 

 done to the grounds and shrubbery were far greater 

 on that day than on any other, they had made a regu- 

 lation prohibiting any persons, except proprietors and 

 their families, and the persons accompanying them, 

 from entering the grounds on Sundays, which had had 

 the effect to give quiet to the neighborhood, and prevent 

 the depredations complained of, as well as to enable 

 proprietors and their families to visit their lots in more 

 seclusion and tranquillity. They had also directed the 

 gates to be opened at sunrise, and closed at sunset. 



At the annual festivals of the Horticultural Society 

 there were frequent allusions to Mount Auburn. One 

 of these festivals occurred three days before the 

 consecration of the grounds, when a regular toast was 

 offered as follows: "Eden the first abode of the liv- 

 ing, Mount Auburn the last resting place of the dead. 

 If the Tree of Life sprung from the soil of the one, 

 Immortality shall rise from the dust of the other." At 

 the festival on the 3d of October, 1832, the fourth 

 regular toast was presented in these words: "Mount 

 Auburn, a fortunate conception happily bodied forth. 

 While it adds solemnity and .dignity to the attributes 

 of death, it offers to grief its proper mitigations." 



