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ilar ideas, are the simple grave-stones which 

 mark the last resting places of humble indi- 

 viduals many of whom were "to fame un- 

 known". Indeed these often rough stones, 



k 'With uucouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked" 

 Fig. 20. 



Rutland. Mass. 1775. 



not only teach us much of the thoughts and 

 feelings of those over whose graves they 

 stand, but also reflect, in a great measure, 

 the conditions under which our forefathers 

 lived. 



New England, one of the earliest perma- 

 nently settled sections in the United States, 

 offers peculiar opportunities for the study of 

 old grave-stones, especially of those bearing 

 dates in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen. 



