applied to Public Cemeteries. 537 



be improved ; and, as an instance, I offer the following arrangement as much 

 superior to the one you have given, because grouping together facts that are of 

 the same kind or time. 1 have not considered whether it contains all that is 

 desirable ; I merely take it as it is, and rearrange it thus. No. of inter- 

 ment; name, description, and residence of the deceased; age; disease (this 

 will, however, be of no value unless it be certified by a medical man) ; date 

 and hour of burial ; officiating clergyman; sexton; undertaker: all these 

 relate to the past. The following reter to the future: No. of grave ; in what 

 part of cemetery ; monumental distinction, purchaser, and date ; amount for 

 interment ; sum paid for keeping in order the grave, &c., and time during 

 which, &c. 



P. 222. " Ledger." I think there ought to be a corresponding ledger, 

 showing what duties are to be performed towards each grave, in double form. 

 First, classed numerically. No. 1. Stone to be kept in order for ten years ; 

 date at which the liability commences and ceases. No. 5. Flowers to be 

 planted, &c. &c. 



Again, in another form. Gravestones to be kept in order : Nos. 7. 

 12., &c., &c. Flowers to be planted : Nos. 3. 9. 13., &c. &c. Or, perhaps, 

 the same end might be obtained by having a map with a distinctive colour 

 for each kind of duty, so that the attendants and managers might see at a 

 glance that the whole was correctly performed. 



"Map Book." The scales adopted should be uniform, and should be some 

 multiple of the scale used in the township plan or government survey. 



" Rules and regulatiom" &c. If you propose to make your work a manual, 

 then add a code of these rules, compiled from the best existing codes, with 

 additions. Perhaps these details might accompany the collection of monu- 

 ments which I before suggested. 



P. 298. " Temporary cemeteries"\h.c. The best purpose to apply what 

 you have designated temporary cemeteries to, would be to plant them and 

 keep them in timber, and so insure that the ground need not be disturbed, at 

 any rate not to a depth that would interfere with the intern)ents. 



P. 299. " Shilliheer''s hearse" was introduced here [Leeds] a few weeks since, 

 and struck me as a great boon to those who wish to reduce the cost of 

 funerals, and j^et fear to do what may be considered not respectful towards the 

 deceased. I cannot say whether it has been much used or not, but I have no 

 doubt of its soon being employed when it is fully known, 



" Mr. Jukes's truck-hearse" would, I suppose, answer within the cemetery, 

 as I have already suggested. I should think it is susceptible of very great 

 improvement. The retarding ought to be effected by some mode more consistent 

 with the solenmity required. 



P. 300. " Funeral processions," &c. I wish you had enlarged more on the 

 subject of funeral processions and attendants. It would be improper to treat 

 the subject with levity ; but it may be safely asserted that the wiiole of the 

 arrangements are suitable only to a barbarous age. The dresses and deco- 

 rations are even childish, and many of the accompaniments any thing but 

 appropriate. The heavy and ponderous ornaments are intended to convey an 

 idea at once of solemnity and magnificence ; but how badly are they supported 

 by the appearance of the jaded and foundered horses, and the uncouthness 

 of the drivers ! This is a part of the subject that I hope you will take up, 

 and illustrate it by drawings contrasting the present modes with others more 

 consistent with good taste. It is in vain, at present and at once, to advise the 

 middle classes to retrench in these expenses ; but it may be possible to per- 

 suade them to adopt more rational modes of proceeding. 



P. Soit. " The soil of the Cambridge Cemetery" &c. I think borings should 

 have been taken, to the depth of 10 or 12 feet at the least, and the result 

 stated, as well as the direction of the dip, if any, of the strata. 



P. 358. line 5. " Steps to the chapel," &c. I shoidd object to a flight of 

 steps, even at the risk of injuring the appearance of the building, as unsuitable 

 to the purpose and inconvenient to those who carry the body ; if it must be 



