. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. .3°, and for July, °. The death-rateof the city in 1886 (not a specially favorable period) was percent.; there having been 9,205 deaths from an estimated populationof 395,924. Boston has 35 public and private cemeteries. Of these, Copps Hill,at the north end of the city, and the Kings Chapel and the Granarycemeteries, are the oldest. The largest are Forest Hills Cemetery, con-taining 228 acres, and Mount Hope Cemetery, 105 acres, in other large ones are Evergreen Cemetery, in Brighton; CedarGrove C
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. .3°, and for July, °. The death-rateof the city in 1886 (not a specially favorable period) was percent.; there having been 9,205 deaths from an estimated populationof 395,924. Boston has 35 public and private cemeteries. Of these, Copps Hill,at the north end of the city, and the Kings Chapel and the Granarycemeteries, are the oldest. The largest are Forest Hills Cemetery, con-taining 228 acres, and Mount Hope Cemetery, 105 acres, in other large ones are Evergreen Cemetery, in Brighton; CedarGrove Cemetery, in Dorchester; Mount Calvary Cemetery, in Rox- 166 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. bury ; St. Benedicts, in West Roxbury. The noted Mount AuburnCemetery, just outside of Boston, is made use of by many of its fam-ilies. Attractive points, as affording the best views, are the old Dor-chester Heights, fortified by General Washington, now called, also,Telegraph Hill and Mount Washington, in what is now theSouth Boston district; Parker Hill, and West Roxbury Fort (the. MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, BOSTON. site marked by the handsome standpipe of the Boston Water Works),the cupola of the State House; Bunker Hill Monument; and, in thenear suburbs, Corey Hill, in Brookline, and Mount Auburn Obser-vatory. Of antiquarian interest, there are the Copps Hill Ceme-tery and the Granary Burying Ground; Christ Church; Faneuil Hall;the Massachusetts Historical Societys and the New England Genea-logical Societys collections; the old South Church, and the OldState House and its contents. Of scientific interest are the collections 1
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