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by A. M. Cozzens. Its story, depicted in marble above, is thus briefly told below: "Marion, XXIX Sept. M. DCCC. XLVI."

From this spot, as we look southward, the eye rests on the beautiful eminence of Vine Hill, the selection of Wm. S. Wetmore.

We return to Central Avenue, which now sweeps to the left and joins the TOUR. There are a few monuments on that portion of the TOUR which we left upon our right, and which upon the map lies between squares 103. 117. Wm. Furbush a headstone on the right hand. J. E. Cammeyer-this is an obelisk. We had begun to feel a little weary of those lines-beautiful as they are- which Halleck wrote on his friend Drake-having met them on about every tenth tombstone. But here they occur with " a variation."

"Them that knew him loved him,

Those that named him praised him."

Exquisite! The poet will undoubtedly adopt this improvement in his next edition. There

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are other beauties in this inscription—as an inspection will show.

Alexander Magarey - a brown-stone monument surmounted by a draped urn. "My wife, Louisa Charlotte." Such is the inscription borne by an elliptic fluted cylinder that stands upon the left. The husband did not sign his name upon the marble—that of A: H Gale, written upon the gate. The obelisk beyond bears the names of Wm. Forbes and others. Henry Spies has an obelisk near, and so has Amelia Augusta Zerfass. Wm. Gray's name appears on a small and modest brown stone. Advancing north-eastwardly, we soon enter Sycamore Grove, and, as we make the circuit, may notice on the left the names of Maria Frost, of Richd., Reuben, and Abm. Coddington, of Robert Pettigrew-a Scotchman' of Jane W. Oatwell and Janet Cunningham. The large square enclosure at a little distance on our left, is a public lot for single interments. It has just been set apart for the spurpoe, and will soon be filled with tenants.

That square stone just beyond, bears the name of "Thos. Bloomer, packing-box maker, of 40 Gold-st., N. Y." A poetic request of Mrs. Bloomer, is recorded below. On the right you may read the names of Bartholome Brunner, a Swiss, and of Henrietta Knauffi. Maria Castello's is a table monument. A marble obelisk on the right informs us that Dr. John Frelinghuysen Cornell, of New-York, died in 1848, distinguished for mental vigor, professional skill, and christian benevolence. His wife still shares his bed. She died about a month before him. Mary Ashfield, Geraldine E. Arthur and John G. Hicks, and Ebenezer Smith, are near each other.

That modest brown stone monument in the second tier of lots, stands over the grave of a brave man "Benjamin Cooper, Benjamin Cooper, captain in the U. S. Navy. He was born Oct. 3, 1793, and died June 1, 1850.

The interior of this quiet and beautiful spot contains numerous graves, many of which are denoted by low, horizontal marbles.

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