CONTAINING A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE MODES OF INTERMENT PRACTISED BY THE ANCIENTS;

DESCRIPTIONS OF

PÈRE LA CHAISE, THE EASTERN CEMETERIES, AND THOSE OF AMERICA;

THE

ENGLISH METROPOLITAN AND PROVINCIAL CEMETERIES,

AND MORE PARTICULARLY OF THE

ABNEY PARK CEMETERY,

AT STOKE NEWINGTON,

WITH A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF ITS PLANTS AND ARBORETUM.

BY GEORGE COLLISON, SOLICITOR.

"It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain." SIR THOMAS BROWN.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

1840.

TO

THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR CHAPMAN MARSHALL,

LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON,

AND TO

JOHN WHEELTON, ESQ.

CO-SHERIFF OF THE CITY OF LONDON AND OF THE COUNTY
OF MIDDLESEX,

IN COMMEMORATION OF THEIR PRESENCE AND KIND ATTENTION UPON THE OCCASION OF LAYING THE FOUNDATION

STONE OF THE CEMETERY CHAPEL ;