148 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



" The Cemetery of Frankfort-oii-the-Main contains about sixty acres, 

 with thirty-two thousand interments, and is entered by an open colon- 

 nade with two wings, the one of which is the residence of the overseer, 

 and the other is used for the deposit of bodies in coffins previous to 

 interment, as a precaution against premature inhumation. There is 

 also a large waiting-room, for persons who accompany the funerals. 

 The monuments, with the exception of a few, are not very remarkable. 



" The cemeteries near Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden belong to the 

 different churches, and possess nothing worthy of the artist's or the poet's 

 observation. The nobility have their mausoleums in their own private 

 parks, isolated from the common people ; the most splendid of w^hich is 

 the chapel erected to the memory of the Duchess of Nassau, near Wies- 

 baden. A still more costly structure is in progress of erection in the 

 cemetery at Laken, near Brussels, for the late Queen of the Belgians. 

 The mausoleum at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, contains the remains of 

 the late king Frederick William III. and his beautiful queen Louise. 

 Both are sculptured in marble by the master hand of Ranch. The 

 burial place of the Humboldt family is at Tegel, a few miles from 

 Berlin, and the grave of the immortal Alexander is by the side of his 

 brother William, and covered with ivy. The family monument is a red 

 granite column, surmounted with a white marble statue, and surrounded 

 by evergreens. 



" The cemeteries of Edinburgh and Leith are small, but all of them 

 exhibit visible tokens of improvement, extending itself to the graves. 

 This is seen in the neatness of the cut grass, the trim walks, and above 

 all, the good taste displayed by the sextons in preventing any scattered 

 bones of the poor deceased to be seen about the graves, when an inter- 

 ment takes place, which is not the case in many other graveyards. 



" The principal burial ground of Dublin, is the Prospect Cemetery, at 

 Glasnevin, in the vicinity of the Botanic Gardens. It is under the 

 control and supervision of the Roman Catholics, who, however, permit 

 other religious sects to be interred within the same inclosure. The 

 most remarkable monument in these grounds is a large round tower, 

 erected to the memory of the late Daniel O'Connell, the great Irish 

 patriot. The tomb of Curran is also here. The avenues are narrow, 

 and no carriage is permitted to enter the grounds, which are kppt very 

 clean, and adorned with shrubs and flowers ; the soil, however, is reten- 

 tive of water, and, therefore, not so well adapted to a burial-place as a 

 dry and sandy soil. 



"The chief burial-place of the ancient aristocracy of Ireland is at 

 Muckross Abbey, founded by McCarthy Mor, in 1440, on the borders 

 of the Lakes of Killarney. It is probably the most picturesque and 

 romantic burial ground anywhere to be found. Beneath the ivy-covered 



