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bearing the simple inscription of Hannah Adams, 

 " first tenant of Mount Auburn." 



The Cemetery has a beautiful granite chapel in the 

 Gothic style of architecture, measuring sixty-six feet 

 by forty, and about eighty feet high. The exterior 

 is surrounded with a row of octagonal buttresses and 

 pinnacles. All the windows are of stained glass, 

 with emblematic designs. The first and only time 

 that I visited this Cemetery was a few days after 

 the interment of the unfortunate Dr. Webster, who 

 was executed in Boston on the 30th of August last, 

 for the murder of Dr. George Parkman. 



The following is the inscription upon the monument 

 on the lot owned by Prof. John W. Webster, on the 

 Narcissus Path, Mount Auburn : — 



" Angel of death ! did no presaging signs 



Announce thy coming, and thy way prepare ? 

 No warning voice, no harbinger was thine — 



Danger and fear seemed past — but thou wer't there ! 

 Prophetic sounds along the earthquake's path — 



Foretell the hour of Nature's awful throes ; 

 And the volcano, ere it bursts in wrath, 



Sends forth some herald from its dread repose j 

 But thou, dark Spirit ! swift and unforeseen, 

 Cam'st like the lightning's flash, when heaven was all serene." 



A cold shiver came over me as I passed the jail- 



