Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THIS WATER WILL THIRST AGAIN : BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE WILL BE IN HIM A WELL OF WATER SPRINGING UP INTO EVERLASTING LIFE. From this vicinity two avenues lead up, through naturaldepressions, to the higher plain of the cemetery, one oneach side of Mount Dearborn. The eastern side of thishill is very rough and precipitous, huge boulders beingpiled one above another, in fantastic shapes, clothed withshrubbery which grows in the fissures of the stones, andshaded by trees which have found root beneath them. From
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THIS WATER WILL THIRST AGAIN : BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE WILL BE IN HIM A WELL OF WATER SPRINGING UP INTO EVERLASTING LIFE. From this vicinity two avenues lead up, through naturaldepressions, to the higher plain of the cemetery, one oneach side of Mount Dearborn. The eastern side of thishill is very rough and precipitous, huge boulders beingpiled one above another, in fantastic shapes, clothed withshrubbery which grows in the fissures of the stones, andshaded by trees which have found root beneath them. From the Fountain Dell a steep path leads up thesouthern side of Mount Dearborn, and then up its moregentle western slope to the top. As seen from the plainon the west of the hill, it appears to be only a slight ele-vation, but it rises to a considerable height above the low 208 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. land on the opposite side. On the summit is the monu-ment erected by his friends and fellow-citizens as a tributeto the memory of General Dearborn. The prospect from. this hill is not very extensive, but glimpses may be had ofsome of the most finished and beautiful portions of thecemetery. FOREST HILLS CEMETERY. 209 From the dell which divides Mount Dearborn fromMount Warren an avenue leads, by a somewhat steepascent, to the top of the latter, which is, in fact, rathertable land than a hill. The prospect from Mount Warrenis more limited than that from some of the other hills,owing to the growth of the trees which skirt its here and there, through the trees, a distant pictureof rural scenery may be seen, or a nearer one of somebeautiful spot in the cemetery, with the marble monumentsgleaming among the foliage and flowers. The burial lot of the Warren family is on the summitof Mount Warren. The ashes of General Warren, withothers of the family, have recently been taken from theiroriginal resting place, deposited in urns, and reinterred inthis lot; so that these grounds are in fact t
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