16 FUNERAL OF NORTHERN MAN. [CHAP. XXI. 



drawing-rooms thrown into one, and the coffin placed 

 on a table between the folding doors, covered with 

 a white cloth. There were twenty or thirty gen 

 tlemen on the one side, and nearly as many ladies 

 and children on the other, none of them in mourning. 

 The Episcopal clergyman who officiated, before read 

 ing the usual burial service, delivered a short and 

 touching address, alluding to the stranger cut off 

 in his youth, far from his kindred, and exhorting 

 his hearers not to defer the hour of repentance to a 

 death-bed, when their reason might be impaired or 

 taken from them. After the prayers, six of the 

 gentlemen came forward to carry the coffin down 

 stairs, to put it into a small hearse drawn by a single 

 horse, and three carriages followed with as many as 

 they could hold, to the cemetery of Rose Hill. This 

 burial-ground is in a beautiful situation on a wooded 

 hill, near the banks of the Ocmulgee and overlooking 

 the Falls. 



These Falls, like so many of those on the rivers 

 east of the Alleghanies, are situated on the line of 

 junction of the granitic and tertiary regions.* The 

 same junction may also be seen at the bridge over 

 the Ocmulgee, at Macon, the red loam of the ter 

 tiary formation resting there on mica schist. At 

 the distance of one mile south-east of the town, 

 a railway cutting has exposed a series of beds 

 of yellow and red clay, with accompanying sands 

 of tertiary formation, and, at the depth of forty 

 feet, I observed a large fossil tree converted into 



* See &quot; Travels in X. America,&quot; vol. i. p. 132. 



