Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . thecoming generations of his invaluable services and labors. Mount Aluijrn. — The cemetery of Mount Auburn,justly celebrated as the most interesting object of the kindin our country, is situated in Cambridge and Watertown,about four and a half miles from the city of Boston, andone and a quarter miles west of Harvard UniAersity. Itincludes upwards of one hundred acres of land, purchasedat diffei-ent times by th(; Massachusetts Horticultural Soci-ety, extending from the main road nearly to the banks ofCharles River. A portion of the land n
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . thecoming generations of his invaluable services and labors. Mount Aluijrn. — The cemetery of Mount Auburn,justly celebrated as the most interesting object of the kindin our country, is situated in Cambridge and Watertown,about four and a half miles from the city of Boston, andone and a quarter miles west of Harvard UniAersity. Itincludes upwards of one hundred acres of land, purchasedat diffei-ent times by th(; Massachusetts Horticultural Soci-ety, extending from the main road nearly to the banks ofCharles River. A portion of the land next to the road,and now under cultivation, once constituted the experi-mental garden of the society. A long watercourse be-tween this tract and the interior woodland formed a nat-ural boundary, separating the two sections. The innerportion, wliich was set apart for the purposes of a ceme-tery, is covered, throughout most of its extent, with avigorous growth of forest trees, many of them of largesize, and comprising an unusual variety of species. This. 1. Road to Fresh Pond. 14. Juniper Hill. 2. Chapel. 15. Temple Hill. 3. Spruce Aveirne. 16. Rosemary Path. 4. Public Lot. 17. Jasmine Path. 5. Laurel Hill. 18. Chestnut Avenue 6. Walnut Avenue. 19. Poplar Aveime. 7. Mountain Avenue. 20. Meadow Pond. 8. Mount Auburn Tower. 21. Lime Avenue. 9. Dell Path. 22. Larch Avenue. 10. Pine Hill. 23. Garden Pond. 11. Central Square. 24. Forest Poiul. 12. Cedar Hill. Central A\enue. 13. Harvard lK)MON AM) VICIMTV. i ] .j tract is beautifully undulating in its surface, containing anumber of bold eminences, steep acclivitiCTvand deep,i-liadowy valleys. A remarkable natural ridge, with alevel surface, runs througli the ground fi-om south-east tonorth-west, which wa> for many year^ u favorite walk withthe students of Harvard. The principal eminence,calledMount Aul)urn. is one hundred and iwcnty-five feet abovethe level of Charles Ifivcr, and commands irom its sum-mit one of the
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