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597. Cemeteries. The practice of the
Continent, in removing burial-places from towns to the country, has only
recently been imitated in Britain. The first example, we believe, is
that of the Necropolis of Liverpool, a parallelogram of three or four
acres, laid out as a burial garden in 1825. It belongs to a public
company of dissenters, who hold it in chares of 10l each. The
Mount of St James's Cemetery, of Liverpool (figs 198 and 199), is one of
the most extraordinary in Britain, or, perhaps, in Europe. It is formed
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the bottom and sides of an immense stone quarry, the
general form of which is winding and irregular. the sides are planted in
some places, and hollowed out into catacombs in others. The bottom is
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