. Guide through Mount Auburn. A Hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad. Illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . Sept. 2o, 1779; diedal Boston, Mass., Jan. .r>, 1S1I. On the left is a small white marble obelisk in the Ord-way lot. Mr. Ordway is a musician, and the harp on thefront of the obelisk, together with the inscription below, arevery appropriate. There is this inscription : — Staccato is life—Presto is death — Placido the to the left into Columbine Path, examine the Thayerand liinney monuments, pass between the two into Heath Path,and then ret
. Guide through Mount Auburn. A Hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad. Illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . Sept. 2o, 1779; diedal Boston, Mass., Jan. .r>, 1S1I. On the left is a small white marble obelisk in the Ord-way lot. Mr. Ordway is a musician, and the harp on thefront of the obelisk, together with the inscription below, arevery appropriate. There is this inscription : — Staccato is life—Presto is death — Placido the to the left into Columbine Path, examine the Thayerand liinney monuments, pass between the two into Heath Path,and then return to Fir Avenue, The Binney monument is one of the finest in the Ceme-tery. On the hack is a large weeping female figure, and onthe front a beautiful figure of an angel. It is inscribed, —Amos Binney, M. D., died at Rome, February 18, 1847, aged to Fir Avenue, we pass on the right the Poor,Pratt, Leland, and Dunbar lots, all appropriate; that ofJohn H. Kelsey on the left. The weeping figure in this lotis beautifully executed. On the right is Dr. S. O. Rich-ardsons monument to the memory of Ella, a white marble J M. BIHNET MONUMENT. See page 48. 50 MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERT. temple, with a sleeping child therein. On the right is thepublic lot called St. Johns. There is nothing particularlyworthy of the visitors notice here, except a tablet to thememory of Capt. Josiah Cleveland, a soldier of the revo-lution. To the memory of Captain Josiah Cleveland, of Owo»o, X, Y., thistablet is erected In those anion: whom he departed llns Itlc, and ,i for hispnvate virtu, s and cralitudc lor his public «, v.,- horn at , Conn.,Dec. U, lVSIt. He died al Chai I. stown. Mass ,jnn<- :«, He ».t an officer of the Arm] oi served his country bravolj and Iaithliilh through the wholi wai olthe Revolution. He Volutin her battles al Hunker Hill, Harlem Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, and Yorktown. lie bus
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