Mount Auburn Cemetery

it, thus finishing all that part which is usually seen by visitors who ride out from Boston or Cambridge. The estimate for the whole front fence is about $18,700 of which it will be seen that 10.000 is more than half. The remaining lesser half we should be able to finish in a year or two.

2 For obtaining pure water we should begin a ditch or drain, at the salt marsh as low as the tide water, and continue it into Meadow Pond, thence by a channel, or culvert, into Forest, and Garden Ponds, and from the latter into the meadow west of the gate. This would enable us to drain our low grounds, and drain and clean out the ponds, and if, as Mr Howe thinks, we should strike springs, we might have running water without going to Fresh Pond. But if not this enterprise may be extended hereafter. I should think $4.000 sufficient for the above purpose. Mr Coolige's consent must be obtained to a ditch through his low land near Charles river.

3 A Hedge is wanted on the 3 back sides. The principal expense would be for digging a trench and filling it with soil from the ponds. Mr Howe can raise the plants at a trifling cost.

4 A Chapel such as you propose might be erected of rough stone on some Gothic model, for less than $5.000, I think. We must select some spot with sufficient unoccupied ground to be kept for its prospective enlargement. In the opposite figure, the building is in black and the prospective addition is dotted of the shape which I understand to meet your views.

[Image: line drawing of a cruciform plan with only the nave, or left-most rectangle, a solid line.]

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