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side the city. Among the embarrassments which in the first 

 instance presented themselves, the principal were the general 

 opposition of all the classes of citizens, and the want of the 

 funds necessary to defray the expences of the ere6lion. The 

 narrowness of his own fortune, and the impracticability, 

 under such circumstances, of having recourse to voluntary 

 contributions, would have prevented the accomplishment of 

 the undertaking, if it had not been dire6led by an unchange- 

 able constancy. All that economy, personal co-operation, 

 the influence of authority, and a promptness of execution, 

 can contribute to advance the progress of a public monument, 

 concurred in the constru6lion of this one. At the close of the 

 year 1789, the projeiSl was formed to build a cemetery : and 

 at the middle of the following year, 1790, it was completed. 

 Its figure is a parallelogram, the length of which is fifty-four 

 geometrical paces, and its breadth thirty. It is situated to 

 the W. N. W. of the city, at the distance of two musket shots^ 

 and lies on the left, on entering by the above-mentioned 

 route. Its position is highly advantageous, inasmuch as it 

 receives the benefit of the little ventilation the city enjoys, and 

 is on a kind of eminence which facilitates the evaporation of 

 the contagious and noxious eSuvia. Fronting the entrance is 

 a chapel in which the funeral rites are performed, and which 

 is opened on all occasions when the relatives are desirous to 

 solemnize the memory of any of the defunct who are there in- 

 terred. The ornaments of the building, and the judicious 

 choice of the site, do honour to the talents and taste of Don 

 Juan de Galves. 



The sepulchres within the church have been closed; and all 

 the corpses, without distinction, interred in the cemetery. 



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