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tribute to a revered Sunday School Teacher. Geraldine Palmer and Eliza Brouwer are near. Not far from this stands the small headstone of John H. Casilear. Imagine, if possible, with what emotions we first read his epitaph! It is as follows:

"On the threshold of manhood, he made
but one step unto death, leaving a

space which no man can fill."

An obelisk of considerable size is reared to Abm. Brouwer and wife. The small obelisk of George A. A. Russel stands in the same vicinity. It contains a little painting, some carving, and a large amount of writing. A cubic block of granite marks the family sepulchre of John B. Schmelzel.

That Egyptian structure is the granite tomb

of Abraham Schermerhorn.

the brown-stone

Beyond it stands

monument of Alex. Fraser,

"Minister of the Gospel."

Just below it, are E. L. Bockhorn's headstone, and John Dary's horizontal tablet. Re

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turning towards Lawn Girt Hill, we pass the Gothic headstone of Bernard M. Cassidy, and the obelisk of Rev. George Benedict, a Baptist clergyman. Further in on the same side is the tall Gothic brown-stone pillar of A. Vandervoort. The memorials of John Spader, of J. H. Faber, of Maria Louisa Solomon, of Humphrey B. Crary, Johannas Windmayer and others, are in this neighborhood. Leaving on the right, John Sinclair's marble obelisk and the glass case full of a child's playthings, let us look now at this large brown monument of Cyrus P. Smith.

Mark, as you approach it, the fine sweep and proportions of its outline, as you follow it with your eye, from the base to the flame of its urn. It bears the hopeful Christian motto "Resurgemus."* For.so large a mass as this structure is, the enclosure seems small. In that small lot which adjoins this upon the north, may be seen three grassy mounds.

"We shall rise again."

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It is the burial-place of Theodore Eames and of two daughters. This was a learned and a good man. He practised law for several years in Salem, Mass. Then he was master of the Public Latin School in the city. He afterwards removed to Brooklyn, where he conducted successfully a school for boys.

Step now into Myrtle Path, as it winds round the base of Lawn-girt Hill. If you

wish to see

more of the obelisks of Richards

and McNulty, a short walk southward will place you before them. Still farther south are Joseph Stickler and Henry Worrall.

We will next pass up and by the northern end of this symmetric and wood-crowned mount, owned by the Pierrepont family. That low brown monument which we see, is a tribute to the virtues of William Bell, a native of Scotland. There are also in this spacious ground, four small graves, not visible from this point.

With alluring curves, and charming visions of hill and vale of light and shade — and of

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