. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. CHURCH GARDENS AND CEMETERIES. 109 earth is not merely a deodorizing medium, as it would ap- pear to be in other divisions. In the select parts, in addi- tion to small statuary, &c, you frequently see choice forced flowers placed on the tombs, and one cold February day I saw a dame, evidently a nurse or respectable servant, sitting weeping by the costly tomb of a young woman buried that day twelvemonth, which tomb she had
. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. CHURCH GARDENS AND CEMETERIES. 109 earth is not merely a deodorizing medium, as it would ap- pear to be in other divisions. In the select parts, in addi- tion to small statuary, &c, you frequently see choice forced flowers placed on the tombs, and one cold February day I saw a dame, evidently a nurse or respectable servant, sitting weeping by the costly tomb of a young woman buried that day twelvemonth, which tomb she had almost covered with Fig. View in the Cemetery Montmartre. large bunches of white forced Lilac and beautiful buds of Eoses. Next let us visit the wide spaces where the poorer people bury their dead out of their sight, and you will see a most business-like mode of sepulture. A very wide trench, or fosse, is cut, wide enough to hold two rows of coffins placed across it, and 100 yards long or so. Here they are rapidly stowed in one after another, just as nursery labourers lay in stock " by the heels/' only much closer, because there is no earth between the coffins, and wherever the coffins— which are very like egg-boxes, only somewhat less sub- stantial, happen to be short, so that a little space is left between the two rows, those of children are placed in lengthwise between them to economize space; the whole. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London, J. Murray
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