Landscape- Gardening applied to Cemeteries. 353 



Art. II. TJie Principles of Landscape- Gardening and of Landscape - 

 Architecture applied to the Laying out of Public Cemeteries and 

 the Improvement of Churchyards; including Observations on the 

 Working and General 3Ianagement of Cemeteries and Burial- 

 Grounds. By the Conductor. 



{Conlinucd from p. 301.) 

 V. Design for a Cemetery of moderate Extent, on level Ground, 



EXEMPLIFIED IN ONE NOW BEING FORMED AT CAMBRIDGE. 



We shall here copy the Report which we made to the Directors, having 

 obtained their permission for that purpose, omitting some details which have 



\_Conlinuation of note from p. 300.] 



dition of the dead was entirely different, and that there ought to be a consist- 

 ency in every thing belonging to the various orders of society. The cause of 

 the mistake which the poor make is this : that, by so uncalled for an expense, 

 they think they show their greater respect for the dead, as if a dead father 

 or mother (unless he or she were wrapt up in selfishness) would deprive their 

 children of necessaries or comforts to gratify an imaginary and false pride." — 

 S. H. N. 



The following case shows that where there is a genuine respect for the 

 feehngs and wishes of the dead, it soars high over all the ordinary pomp of 

 funerals. It also shows how very careful persons ought to be on their death- 

 bed, not to utter wishes that may give much pain and inconvenience to 

 their relations. No considerate person would have expressed the wish 

 which led to the following instance of 



Extraordinary Resolution and Perseverance. — We have now to record 

 a feat of extraordinary perseverance, so rare indeed, that we much doubt 

 whether its parallel can be found. On the 19th of November last, a person 

 of the name of Thomas Wrassel, aged sixty-three, died at Wisbeach, in the 

 county of Cambridge, and previously to his demise he expressed a wish to his 

 only sister, who resided with him, that his remains should be interred in the 

 churchyard at Clarborough, near Retford, at which place he had formerly 

 lived, and where his mother and some of his family had been interred. With 

 astonishing resolution the sister resolved on fulfilling his last injunctions, and 

 set forth with the remains of her brother in a donkey cart. The distance be- 

 tween Wisbeach and Clarborough is ninety-seven miles. During the journey the 

 coffin, which projected from behind the cart, was covered v/ith a ragged 

 coverlet, upon which the wretched sister sat. At length, after being eleven 

 days on the road, she and the coffin reached Clarborough on the 2d of 

 December, and the body lay as it had travelled in the cart, in an outhouse of 

 one of the village inns until Sunday December 4,, when the last rites of the 

 church were performed over it by the Rev. W. R. Sharpe, curate : and, after 

 its long transit, it was committed to its last earthly resting-place. The woman 

 herself was not attired in decent mourning, but readily paid the funeral ex- 

 penses, and expressed her determination to return to Wisbeach by the con- 

 veyance in which she had come, in order to dispose of some little property 

 there, preparatory to residing at Clarborough ; so that she may be sure of 

 laying her bones beside his bones, and that the kindred dust of the family may 

 commingle together, until the trump of the archangel shall summon them to 

 meet the Lord in the air. The woman is sixty years of age, and the remains 

 of her brother were only placed in a single coffin, although he had been dead 

 for the long period of fifteen days ere the earth received back its own. 

 (^Nottingham Journal, as quoted in the Times, Dec. 24.. 1842.) 



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