Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . sto 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 w^ater, 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 snow
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . sto 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 w^ater, 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 ore quite ready to meet .their vis-itors, and receive food from their hands. From them the24 * 282 BOSTON AND VKJINITY. Other island, which is hirger 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 bOSTON ANU VKJINITY. 2^:^ Some of the most striking and pictiiic (\iw rocks liavebeen suffered to remain in their natural state, the hiborof art going only so far as more clearly to develop theirbeauty, and to adorn the grounds around. One of themost picturesque grou])s of these rocks is on the lot ofGeneral William II. 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, comparedAvith the number of lots which have been taken, is this respect it presents a contrast with INlount Auburn,wher» 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 case
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