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Dr. Mitchell was buried in Asheville, North Carolina, on the 10th of 

 July, 1857, by the side of one of liis College mates. But at the earnest 

 solicitation of many friends, and especially of the mountain men of Yancey, 

 his family allowed his body to be removed and deposited on the top of Mt. 

 Mitchell. This was done on the 16th of June, 1858. There he shall rest 

 till the Judgment Day, in a mausoleum such as no other man has ever had. 

 Reared by the hands of Omnipotence, it was assigned to him by those to 

 whom it was given thus to express their esteem, and it was consecrated by 

 the lips of eloquence warmed by affection, amidst the rites of our Holy Re- 

 ligion. Before him lies the North Carolina he loved so well and served so 

 faithfully. From his lofty couch its hills and vallies melt into its plains 

 as they stretch away to the shores of the eastern ocean, whence the dawn 

 of the last day stealing quietly westward, as it lights the mountain tops 

 first, shall awake him earliest to hear the greeting of 



a^ "Well DOXE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT." 



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