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SCHERMERHORN. Buttonwood Hill, between Pine and Sycamore Avenues.

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a shroud of verdure. It will be a great improvement. Graven on the stone, are the names of Peter and P. A. Schermerhorn.

Here is Leafy Path. Let us enjoy the winding and shady way. Bid the driver proceed

into Pine Avenue, and from that, take the first left into Central Avenue. Memorials of John Clem and of Thos. Bellman, are seen on the right, and of Sarah Jamison and Chas. J. Radford on the left. That tall obelisk beyond

Pine Avenue, is Malvina Harriot's, and near it

are Alfred and Chas. Wiley. Deborah W. McCluney, Rosa Lee, and Stephen Fitch are near, and are passed upon the right. The large brown stone monument before us is as yet unlettered. It is a good combination of dignity and beauty. The lot belongs to T. and H. Messenger and Innes C. Adams. In the lot opposite may be seen a marble A small child is seen perilously steep side of a cloud, while an angel from above is hastening to its rescue. Upon the other side of the stone the mother

chef-d'œuvre.

sleeping on the

of Wm. Wallace Capos, tells her grief in words of true beauty; and then we turn to the left and penetrate the calm shades of Twilight Dell. There is a small, marble monument, surmounted by a distance from us on the right. It stands on Central Avenue,

Stevenson.

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At the upper side of this dell, two or three monuments have been set up. First on the left, we pass one of brown stone, with inserted tablet of marble, which tells us that Mary · H. Kirkwood, a native of Governor's Island, died at Barrancas, in Florida. In the adjoining enclosure, a soldier and an and an artist repose, side by side. The hexagonal, brown-stone monument, with raised, castellated sculpture, stands over the remains of Alexander J. Swift, an officer in the United States Corps of Engineers. At the time of his death, which occurred in New-Orleans, April, 1847, Captain Swift was in command of the U. S. Corps of Sappers and Miners. The adjoining headstone

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