Mount Auburn- its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons (1861) (14592059908)

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Title: Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884
Subjects: Mount Auburn Cemetery (Watertown and Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher: Boston, Cambridge, J. Munroe and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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strangely impressivescene, and the thrill of mingled awe and wondea seizesevery fibre, both of the body and mind. To get someidea of the multitudes of figures on the walls, I took thetrouble to count those which occupied a space two feetwide and twenty feet in height, extending from the floorto the ceiling, and I found them to be two hundred andfifty-four. They all seemed to have a meaning ; and nodoubt many parts of them could have been read and in-terpreted by one who had the requisite skill ; so thatprobably the contents of ten thousand volumes may still 112 MOUNT AUBURN. remain visibly recorded on the walls of these ancienttombs, there to be preserved for the instruction of agesand generations yet unborn. There are fifty such cham-bers accessible at present, and the number increases asinvestigation proceeds. Who may conjecture the flood ofhistorical light which may yet be poured on the latter ageof the world, should the key to these mysterious repre-sentations ever be discovered ?
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CENTRAL SQUARE. The ground called Central Square was originally reserved as asituation for some future public monument. Near this square stands themonument erected to the memory of Miss Hannah Adams, who was thefirst adult person buried in Mount Auburn. It was raised by her friends, and bears the following inscription: — TO Hannah Adams,Historian of the JewsandRkviewer of the Christian Sects, THIS monument is ERECTi-:D BY HER FEMALE FRIENDS. First Tenant OF Mount Auburn : She died December 15, 1831. AGED 76. 10* 114 MOUNT AUBURN. OLD GRAVEYARDS. There are few places which we visit with more interestthan those old burial grounds, so frequent in our earlysettlements, and in which the dust of our ancestors is laid.We observe in their appearance a charming simplicity,that attracts the attention of all visitors, enlists theirsympathies with the dead, and excites a tender venerationfor their memory. No exhibition of pride awakens en-vious feelings, or causes emotions which are not in harm