Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . e, promisesto be one of the chief beauties of Forest Hills. It lies ashort distance east of Fountain Hill, and is approached byavenues from different parts of the cemetery. In it twoislands have been formed, one of which contains a copiousand never-failing spring of crystal water, which gushes upthrough the pebbly bottom of a little basin. About theisland birches are planted, and willows are trained acrossthe rustic bridge by which it is reached. This island is afavorite resort for visitors, who gather here to watch thegraceful swans a
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . e, promisesto be one of the chief beauties of Forest Hills. It lies ashort distance east of Fountain Hill, and is approached byavenues from different parts of the cemetery. In it twoislands have been formed, one of which contains a copiousand never-failing spring of crystal water, which gushes upthrough the pebbly bottom of a little basin. About theisland birches are planted, and willows are trained acrossthe rustic bridge by which it is reached. This island is afavorite resort for visitors, who gather here to watch thegraceful swans and the snowy ducks, as they sail abouttheir domain. The beautiful swans, especially, are alwaysobjects of interest, and are quite ready to meet their vis-itors, and receive food from their hands. From them the 212 SUBURBAN SIGHTS. other island, which is larger than that containing the spring,takes its name, and to their use it is to be appropriated. The numerous boulders which are scattered over someparts of the cemetery have not only added to the pictu-. resque character of its scenery, but have afforded an op-portunity for rustic ornament in laying out the grounds. FOREST HILLS CEMETERY. 213 Some of the most striking and picturesque rocks havebeen suffered to remain in their natural state, the laborof art going only so far as more clearly to develop theirbeauty, and to adorn the grounds around. One of themost picturesque groups of these rocks is on the lot ofGeneral William H. Sumner, called Sumner Hill, on thewestern slope of Mount Warren. They have not sufferedby the hand of art, and the lot is one of the most beauti-ful and appropriate in the whole cemetery. The number of monuments at Forest Hills, comparedwith the number of lots which have been taken, is this respect it presents a contrast with Mount Auburn,when that cemetery was in the early period of its exist-ence. There, monuments were erected on a large propor-tion of the lots first taken; in many cases befo
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