. The street railway review . acreand also many Huguenots. Copps Hill Burial Ground, on Hull street, is opened from 8 to12 ana 1 to G:30 daily, and visitors can buy a descriptive pamphletand be guided by the vendor. It overlooks the Charles river andcontains many trees, and the tombs of the Sigourneys, Green-woods, Snellings, Lorings, Hntchinsons, Grays. Eliots, Mount-forts and other great families, besides many a grave whose flut-tering flag tells of a hero of the War of the Rebellion. Every onegoes to see the grave and monument of Cotton Mather, the illus-trious Puritan divine, and the autho
. The street railway review . acreand also many Huguenots. Copps Hill Burial Ground, on Hull street, is opened from 8 to12 ana 1 to G:30 daily, and visitors can buy a descriptive pamphletand be guided by the vendor. It overlooks the Charles river andcontains many trees, and the tombs of the Sigourneys, Green-woods, Snellings, Lorings, Hntchinsons, Grays. Eliots, Mount-forts and other great families, besides many a grave whose flut-tering flag tells of a hero of the War of the Rebellion. Every onegoes to see the grave and monument of Cotton Mather, the illus-trious Puritan divine, and the author of Magnalia Christ! Amer-icana. It is a slab of brownstone on a vault of lirick, in thesoutheast corner. The Central Burying Ground, near Boylston street, on Com-mon, dates from 1750. Gilbert Stuart, the portait painter ofKing George King Louis XVI., and President Washington, isthe most illustrious of those buried here; his tomb is No. British soldiers were buried in trenches in and around this ?i«^>-. ^MdSVil^^SV^cMT 507 cemetery, whose venerable and forgotten tombs art overarchedby trees. Mount Auburn, the first garden-cemetery in the world, datesfrom 1S31, and covers 136 acres of beautiful hills, dales, flowerbeds and ponds. In this cemetery are buried 32,000 persons,among them .\gassiz, Spurzhelm. Bowditch, Asa (, Ticknor,Sparks, Felton, Fields, Talfrey, Willis, Tierpont. Quincy, R. , Burlingame. Channing, Rufus Choate, T. W. Parsons,Dorothea Dix. Fanny Fern. Dr. Howe, and the Universalist apos-tles, John Murray and Ballon; Phillips Brooks is near the Kearsarge which sunk the Alabama; (iovernors Rice and Gas-ton, Col. Joseph Williams, Martin Millmore. the sculptor; LinusChilds, the eminent lawj-er, and Kev. A. A. Miner. Bunker Hill monument, in Charlestown, built in 1825-42, ofQuincy granite, is 30 ft. square at the base, and 221 ft. high. Thetop is r(a<h(Ml Ijy 294 steps, and superl)ly overlooks the city andthe sea, and th
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