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made use of on that occasion,” a man called “ Tindal took 
a lease thereof, and converted it into a burial-ground for 
the use of Dissenters.” As late as 1756 it appears to 
have been known as “ Tindal’s Burial-ground.” The 
name Bunhill Fields was given to that part of Finsbury 
Fields, on to which quantities of bones were taken from 
St. Paul’s in 1549. It is said “above a thousand cart¬ 
loads of human bones ” were deposited there. No 
wonder the ghastly name of “ bone hill,” corrupted into 
Bunhill, has clung to the place. At the present time 
the gravestones here are undisturbed, and more respect 
has been shown to them than to the bones in the six¬ 
teenth century. Asphalt paths meander through a forest 
of monuments, and a few seats are placed in the shade 
of some of the trees. Those who live in this poor 
and busy district no doubt make much use of these 
places of rest, but the visitor is only brought to this 
depressing, gloomy spot on a pilgrimage to the tomb 
of John Bunyan. He rests near the centre of the 
ground, under a modern effigy. Not far off is the 
tomb of Dr. Isaac Watts, whose hymns are repeated 
wherever the British tongue is spoken, and near him lies 
the author of “ Robinson Crusoe,” Daniel Defoe. This 
quaint old enclosure opens off the City Road, opposite 
Wesley’s Chapel, and on the western side it is skirted 
by Bunhill Row. But a few yards distant is another 
graveyard of very different aspect, as it contains only 
one stone, and that a very small one, with the name of 
George Fox, who died in 1690. The other graves in 
this, the “ Friends’ Burial-ground,” never having been 
marked in any way, it has the appearance of a dismal 
little garden, like the approach or “ gravel sweep ” to 
a suburban villa. But it is neatly kept. 
