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. |