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Title: Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Mount Auburn cemetery. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston and Cambridge, J. Munroe and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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MOUNT AUBURN. THE CHAPEL. The Chapel was erected for the performance of burialservices in those cases in which the state of the weather,or other circumstances connected with the funeral of thedeceased, might render it necessary or convenient. Itwas designed also to afford a depository for statues andother works of sculpture which require protection fromthe weather. This building is also of granite, and issituated on a conspicuous elevation, at the right ofCentral Avenue. It is sixty feet by forty in its dimen-sions, and its decorations are in the pointed style ofarchitecture. The windows are of colored glass, and in the head ofthe large nave window is an emblematical device, con-sisting of a winged female figure reposing in sleep uponthe clouds, and holding two sleeping infants in her arms.It is designed to symbolize the tranquillity of death. The rose window in front contains jf painted emblemof immortality, represented by tAvo cherubs with an up-ward and prayerful look of devotion.
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THOWAS DOWSE. BENJ. FRANKLIN. THE DOWSE MONUMENT. 17 THE DOWSE MONUMENT. This monument is on Gentian Path, and consists of asimple obelisk of granite. The graves of the differentmembers of Mr. DoAvses family are marked by head-stones in the same lot. The monument erected toFranklin, by Mr. Dowse, is also a granite obelisk, oflarger dimensions. It bears the following inscription : To the memory of Benjamin Franklin, the Printer, the Philosopher,the Statesman, the Patriot, who, by his -wisdom, blessed his countryand his ao;e, and bequeathed to the world an illustrious example ofindustry, integrity, and self-culture. Born in Boston, m ucc vi. Diedin Philadelphia, m dcc xc. 2* 18 MOUNT AUBUKN. HISTORY OF MOUNT AUBURN. It appears that the earliest meeting assembled to con-sider the project of a Rural Cemetery in the vicinity ofBoston, was held in November, 1825, at the house andby the request of Dr. Jacob Bigelow. The individualswho were present on this occasion, besides Dr. Bigelow,were J

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