Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary monuments. (1898)
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ND AT A VERY EARLY DATE THESEPULCHRAL SLAB WAS INTRODUCED. ADIGNIFIED AND MOST INTERESTING FORM OFOUT-DOOR MEMORIAL, ONE WHICH IS STILL HELDIN HIGH FAVOR THERE, AND WHICH WAS USED TOA SLIGHT EXTENT HERE DURING COLONIAL DAYS,BUT IS NOW SELDOM EMPLOYED, ALTHOUGH ITSHOULD BE, AS IT CAN BE MADE VERY… … ORNAMENTAL EMBELLISHMENT, FAR GREATERTHAN A HEADSTONE. jjHEN ARTEMISIA, THE WIDOW OF MAUSOLEUS,KING OF CARIA, ERECTED A MEMORIAL INMEMORY OF HER HUSBAND, SHE DEPARTED FROMTHE USUAL FORMS THEN IN VOGUE, AND CREATEDA NEW VARIETY WHICH HAS EVER SINCE BEENCALLED A MAUSOLEUM. A MAUSOLEUM IS ATOMB…
