the labyrinthine solitudes of Mount Auburn, or the sweet spot where the dead repose at Laurel Hill, on the green margin of the Schuylkill. Forty years have not elapsed since it was set apart for this service. The first corpse was laid there on the 21st of May, 1804; since which there have been more than 100,000 interments, and 16,000 monuments erected. These are in every diversified form, of column, urn, and altar, pyramid, obelisk, and sepulchral chapel; many of them surrounded by enclosures, within which are plants, and flowering shrubs, and seats for mourning friends, in their visits to the departed.
"Where slumber Abelard and Heloise."
This monument is of Gothic architecture, and con- structed from the ruins of the abbey of the Paraclete. Its form is a parallelogram, fourteen feet by eleven, and twenty-four in height. A pinnacle twelve feet in elevation rises from the centre of the roof, and four smaller ones, finely sculptured, ornament the corners. It has fourteen columns six feet in height, with rich capitals, and the arches which they support are sur-. mounted by cornices wrought with flowers. The four pediments are decorated with bas-reliefs, roses, and medallions. The statues of Heloise and Abelard are recumbent within, and literally heaped with garlands. Their bones repose in the vault beneath; those of Abelard having been removed from the priory of
