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Principles of Landscape- Gardening 



every part of the grounds, without walking over any of them, and thus insure 

 respect for the dead. We have ah-eady observed that all the drains that re- 

 quire to be made must be under these roads, walks, and paths, so as not to 

 interfere with the graves; and the ranges of situations for graves must be 

 determined before the roads, walks, and green alleys are fixed on, otherwise 

 there might be a waste of ground. To be convinced of the bad effects of the 

 neglect of surface drainage in a cemetery, it is only necessary to walk on the 

 grass of that at Kensal Green during winter or spring. 



The first point to be attended to, according to the present system, 

 unless the cemetery should be a small one of only an acre or two, is 

 to devise a system for throwing the interior into imaginary squares or paral- 

 lelograms, which shall be indicated by numbers and letters on the boundary 

 fence, and by marks inserted in the ground at their points of intersec- 

 tion. In cemeteries of moderate dimensions, more particularly if the 

 form be rectangular, the marks at the intersections of the squares may be 

 dispensed with ; these intersections being readily ascertained when it is 

 desired to find out the precise situation of any grave, by stretching lines 

 across the cemetery from the letters and figures on the boundary fence. 

 For example, suppose Jig. 19. to represent a cemetery of five acres, with the 



Fig. 19. Mode of Laying out a Cemetery in imaginary Squares. 



letters A, B, C, &c., marked at regular distances on the end walls, and figures 

 I, 2, 3, &c., at the same distances on the side walls ; then, by stretching one 

 line from B to B, and another from 2 to 2, &c., the intersections of the strings 

 will give the points B2, C2, &c. : but supposing the surface of the cemetery 

 to be very hilly, or that it is thickly studded with tombs or trees, then, as the 



