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earth is not merely a deodorizing medium, as it would ap- 

 pear to be in other divisions. In the select parts, in addi- 

 tion to small statuary, &c, you frequently see choice forced 

 flowers placed on the tombs, and one cold February day I 

 saw a dame, evidently a nurse or respectable servant, sitting 

 weeping by the costly tomb of a young woman buried that 

 day twelvemonth, which tomb she had almost covered with 



Fig. 42. 



View in the Cemetery Montmartre. 



large bunches of white forced Lilac and beautiful buds of 

 Eoses. 



Next let us visit the wide spaces where the poorer people 

 bury their dead out of their sight, and you will see a most 

 business-like mode of sepulture. A very wide trench, or 

 fosse, is cut, wide enough to hold two rows of coffins placed 

 across it, and 100 yards long or so. Here they are rapidly 

 stowed in one after another, just as nursery labourers lay 

 in stock " by the heels/' only much closer, because there is 

 no earth between the coffins, and wherever the coffins— 

 which are very like egg-boxes, only somewhat less sub- 

 stantial, happen to be short, so that a little space is left 

 between the two rows, those of children are placed in 

 lengthwise between them to economize space; the whole 



