applied to Public Cemeteries. 



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only by a few gifted individuals. I incline to believe that they are susceptible 

 of mathematical demonstration, within limits nearly as rigid as any other 

 branch of human enquiry. 



Page 103. " The ancients contemplated death without terror" &c. I do not 

 at all agree with the writer quoted, as to the feelings of the ancients respect- 

 ing death ; but I have not time to seek for instances to support my views. 

 I would, however, just allude to their constant and guarded avoidance of the 

 term death, by the use of the euphemismi, sleep, or repose, fallen asleep, 

 departed, &c. 



P. 104. " The influence of cemeteries and churchyards in improving the taste," 

 &c. I should rather consider the cemetery as the result of the taste of the 

 community, than the cause of it ; and I think, on reflection, you will admit 

 that your suggestions, as to making it a place of instruction, are only applica- 

 ble to the transition state of 

 society in which we live. , 



P. 142. The" situation" 

 should not be fixed on 

 without reference to the 

 geology of the country ; for 

 instance, if all risk of injury 

 to springs is to be avoided, 

 it should be placed some- 

 where between «, b, and c, in 



-fis, 1 14. : and drains should Fig. 1I4. Geological Diagram, showiiig the Strata in which In- 

 be made, as at ad, to pre- ''^''"'"tsmaylemadcwzthoutinjuring the Springs and Wells. 



vent any moisture from the porous strata descending lower, and there should 

 be no habitations on these strata. 



P. 143. line 9. from the bottom. " One main road, so as to allow of a hearse" 

 &c. I should prefer an arrangement like the following. Let the entrance to 

 the chapel be under an extensive portico, which would admit of the whole 

 procession being under cover : here the coffin should be taken out, and the 

 hearse admitted no farther. If the grave be at a distance from the chupel, a 

 somewhat low bier on wheels might be provided, which would move without 

 much exertion'on flagged or macadamised roads. Fig. 1 15. is a rough sketch of 

 the way in which I would ar-BEiBEirar,r,^„ 

 range a cemetery chapel, and 

 conduct the procession. The 

 porch would be a protection 

 to the whole train in wet wea- 

 ther. Let the procession enter 

 at d, and the hearse proceed 

 to a, the first carriage stopping 

 at b. When the coffin arrived 

 at c, the mourners would en- 

 ter from g ; and they would 

 thus be spared all risk of see- ^^^^BmrnQta 

 ing or hearing the arrange- Fig. lis. Plan for a Cemetery Chapel. 



ments attendant on removing so heavy a weight as a coffin, which often cause 

 alarm lest any accident should occur, and which, however carefully manao-ed, 

 are so trying to the feelings of those whose thoughts should not be rudely "dis- 

 turbed. By rollers fixed in the floor of the hearse, the coffin might be more 

 easily withdrawn, and placed on a frame so contrived that the bearers mit^ht 

 take their places, while the coffin was suspended shoulder height. After the 

 service, it might proceed, without turning, through h. 



P. 146. line 4. " Requires no mapping^ How am I to find any person's 

 grave, if there is not a plan of the cemetery kept ? If the friends of the 

 deceased know it, how are his grandchildren to discover it ? 



P. 147. last paragraph. " A mason's yard, with the sheds," &c. By no means 

 admit workshops within the cemetery at any rate ; nor a mason's or statuary's 



