applied to Public Cemeteries. 363 



The interments may be classed as those made in common or public earth 

 graves, in private earth graves, in brick graves, in vaults having catacombs, 

 and in border graves. 



Every grave in the cemetery is supposed to be numbered, and this may be 

 effected in the following manner. 



1. The Borders may be considered as divided into spaces by the trees, and 

 these spaces ma}' be numbered in regular series, beginning with the right-hand 

 border on entering the cemetery from the main lodge, and terminating with 

 the last space on the left-hand border. A number-stone may be put in in 

 every tenth or twentieth bed or space. 



2. The Beds in the Interior. Beginning at one end (say with the first bed 

 on the right hand on entering by the principal lodge), a stone with a smooth 

 end, 6 or 8 inches by 2 ft, and at least 2 ft. in depth, is to be inserted in the 

 ground at each end of the middle space of the beds, as at a and b in the 

 plan No. 13. [fig. 35. in p. 158.]. On the stone a is to be cut the first 

 number of the bed, i. ; and the last number, viz. l. : and on the stone b the 

 last number of the one side, xxv., or one half of the graves in the bed ; and 

 the commencing number of the second side, xxvi. Thus, in every double 

 bed throughout the cemetery, the stone at the north end will exhibit the 

 number of the first and the last grave on that bed, and the stone at the oppo- 

 site end the number of the last grave on one side, and of the first grave on 

 the other. Should any two adjoining spaces adapted for earth graves be 

 occupied as a brick grave, or any four spaces be required as a vault, in these 

 cases the brick grave would be entered in the cemetery books under the 

 head of two numbers, and the vault under the head of four numbers. 



It is not necessary to begin by putting number-stones to all the beds ; but 

 when choice is made of a bed at a distance from one that has already been 

 numbered, a calculation must be made of the numbers that would occupy 

 the intervening beds, and the two number-stones placed accordingly at the 

 ends of the bed in which the interment is to be made. 



Every brick grave or vault must, therefore, necessarily be a multiple of a 

 common grave, otherwise the numeration will be deranged. 



When a bed is to be spoken of as a whole, it can be designated by the first 

 or lowest number in the bed. Thus, supposing the beds to contain fifty graves 

 each, we should have beds No. 1, 51, 101, 151, 201, and so on : or, in ad- 

 dition to the numbers, a letter may be placed on each stone, and we sliould, 

 therefore, have beds a, b, c, &c. ; and, after a single alphabet was exhausted, 



AA, BB, &C. 



3. The Graves or Vaults under the Terrace will require to be similarly re- 

 corded to the border graves, a number being allowed for every space between 

 the trejs ; or two numbers, if that should be thought necessary. 



4. When the Reserve Sjyaces, g g fin_^g. 81.], are added to the cemetery, 

 the separation hedge will be removed ; and the border, terrace, and beds 

 extended ; and, hence, the graves there will be recorded according to the modes 

 alread}' mentioned. 



The Earth Graves, or graves of the simplest kind, are to be made within a 

 space 8 ft. by 3 ft. ; which, allowing a margin of 3 in. at the sides, and 1 ft. 

 at the end next the 4-fc'et path, will give 7 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in., which is 6 in, 

 longer than is allowed in the Kensal Green Cemetery, besides allowing 

 a space of 1 ft. by 3 ft. for a foot-stone or number, if the purchaser of the 

 grave should think cither of these necessary. For a single interment it must 

 be dug at least 6 ft. in depth ; but, if it is intended to make two or more 

 interments in it, it must be dug 6 ft. deeper for each additional interment; 

 and, as the limit to depth need not be settled, any number of interments 

 may be made in a common grave that the proprietors of the cemetery may fix 

 on, or in a family grave that its owner may determine. 



In order that the sides of the earth graves may remain firm, and not be 

 pressed in by the loose earth of an adjoining grave, they should chiefly be 

 formed alternately with firm ground which has not been buried in, or moved 



