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and rose pendants, and supporting a cross. On the projecting tablet is the name of Henry B. Costar.

Within the enclosure we notice Anna's small horizontal tablet, and, hard by, a graceful marble head-stone, with perforated arch, containing a cross. Upon the summit of the finial, perches a small bird. The name of Cecilia Wyman, with age and dates, appears upon the escutcheon tablets, which project from sunken quatrefoil panels. These lines are inscribed

below:

“There are thoughts that never perish,
Bright, unfading, through long years;
So thy memory we cherish,

As we

Shrined in love, embalmed in tears."

It

stand on this spot and look southward, the eye rests upon a green mound lying between Forest and Woodland Avenues. is, as yet, undistinguished by stone, or heaving turf, but will soon become, and must long continue, a point of strong attraction, as the grave of Chancellor Kent. See Part II.,

DIRECTORY.

page 148, for a brief account of this eminent

Jurist.

Then comes

George Blackburne is next. Randall H. Greene's marriage and family records, with the names of his deceased father, wife, son, and daughter. Then come three more stones inscribed with the name of Blackburne. Maria Lord, Chas. A. Strong, Sarah A. Curtis, Wm. Hathaway, are not far apart, and further on are Nath. Putnam, and Sally

Atkins.

South and south-west from this spot, there are a few monuments which we will mention here. The brown stone monument of Jane Clark Stephens - a native of the Isle of Man. The small obelisk of Jane L. Young. The headstone of Hannah White. Beneath a large urn or vase which rests upon a massive base, may be seen the name of Agnes Ten Eyck Nichols. These objects may be approached

by means of Forest Avenue.

When we

have completed the circuit of Vista Hill, the TOUR conducts us first in a

northern direction.

DIRECTORY.

On our right, we see the

names of Bennet and Bonner.

The headstones of Euphronia Misick and of Geo. W. Hoffman stand a little way back upon our left. Next upon the left is a head-stone to the memory of John Roberts, of Llanafan in South Wales. There is a poetic epitaph on this stone, which those may read who can.

With the aid of a friend, whose boyhood was spent among the beetling cliffs that frown "O'er Solway's foaming flood,"

we venture to render it thus:

In quietness and calm content,

John's pilgrimage on earth was passed;
And then his gentle spirit went

To worlds more fair, and joys that last.

In this enclosure repose also several persons of the name of Jones.

The name of Mary Kutz is seen on a column, which stands on the left.

To this

succeeds the marble obelisk of Mary Isnard.

This small lot is planted round with ever

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