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The general cemetery at Munich is surrounded by a 

 border of trees and shrubs, with the exception of one end, in 

 which is placed a semicircular building, composed of an open 

 colonnade in front, with vaults underneath. In the centre of 

 this semicircular building is a projection behind, called the 

 Leichenhaus, containing three large rooms, in two of which 

 (one ibr males, and the other for females) the dead, as 

 shrouded and deposited in their coffins by their relations, are 

 exposed to view for forty- eight hours before they are com- 

 mitted to the earth. The other room is for suicides and 

 miowned bodies. The principal monuments in this cemetery 

 are placed under the colonnade of the Leichenhaus, and 

 against the boundary walls; and they are seen to great 

 advantage from the surrounding walk. The compartments 

 in the central part are bordered by shrubs, flowers, and 

 tombs ; and the space in the interior is devoted to graves 

 without tombs, or to graves with monuments, for those who 

 do not choose to go to the expense of placing them in the 

 borders. Where interments take place without tombstones, 

 the ground is not re-opened for seven years ; and the rela- 

 tions of the deceased, if they come forward when that period 

 is expired, can defer it for any longer time, according to the 

 payment that they may choose to make. 



The Munich cemetery, on All Saints' day (November 1.), 

 presents one of the most extraordinary spectacles that is to 

 be seen in Europe. The tombs and graves are decorated, in 

 a most remarkable manner, with flowers natural and artificial, 

 pictures, sculptures, crucifixes, vessels with meat, corn, seeds, 

 water, oil, bread, &c., crape, feathers, drapery, canopies, 

 branches of trees, dried moss, and, in short, with every 

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