Necropolis at Glasgow. 51 



Sight Hill cemetery, which is being laid out in the pleasure- 

 ground style, with handsome entrance gates, lodges, and chapels, 

 all in a forward state. The other cemetery which we saw is 

 the 



Necropolis. — This is situated adjoining the ancient cathedral 

 and its extensive burying-ground, which occupies a gentle 

 declivity on one side of a valley, while the Necropolis, which 

 may be considered as a continuation of this burying-ground, 

 covers a rather steep rocky hill, sprinkled with trees and modern 

 tombstones, on the other. The impression made by the first 

 view of this hill, studded with trees and tombs and scars of solid 

 rock, when looking from the town, with the cathedral in the fore- 

 ground, is grand and melancholy; and the effect is heightened 

 as we pass along an elevated road towards a bridge which 

 crosses the valley at the point where the Necropolis commences, 

 and is, as it were, joined to the ancient churchyard, so as 

 to unite the tombs of many generations with those of generations 

 yet unborn. This circumstance is finely noticed in the follow- 

 ing inscription on the bridge : — 



THIS BRIDGE 



WAS ERECTED BY 



THE MERCHANTS' HOUSE OF GLASGOW, 



TO AFFORD A PROPER ENTRANCE TO THIS NEW CEMETERY, 



COMBINING CONVENIENT ACCESS TO THE GROUNDS, 



WITH SUITABLE DECORATION TO THE VENERABLE CATHEDRAL 



AND THE SURROUNDING SCENERY J 



TO UNITE 



THE TOMBS OF MANY GENERATIONS WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE, 



WITH THE RESTING-PLACES DESTINED FOR GENERATIONS YET UNBORN ; 



WHERE THE ASHES OF ALL SHALL REPOSE 



UNTIL 



THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST ; 



WHEN THAT WHICH IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY 



SHALL BE RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY, 



WHEN THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION, 



WHEN THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY, 



WHEN DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY. 

 A.D. MDCCC XXXIII. 



" Blessed is the Man who trusteth in God, and whose hope the LORD is."* 



The road to this bridge is straight, and on a raised mound 

 nearly level, so as to be considerably above the lower part of 

 the ancient churchyard, and with the hill of the Necropolis 



* This, and the inscription over the gate, were kindly procured for us by 

 David Gibson, Esq., the active, intelligent, and enthusiastic secretary of the 

 Glasgow Horticultural Society. 



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