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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER X
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It has a greater resemblance now to a frightful scarecrow than to any thing else.
The churchyard near the church is distinguished for its size and beauty.
It is surrounded by a wall of stone two feet high, surmounted by an iron palisading of equal height, broken by stone pillars.

On several sides, steps are made into the burying-ground over this partition.

In this cemetery, as in the one of Stockholm, one seems to be in a lovely garden, laid out with alleys, arbours, lawns, &c.; but it is more beautiful than the other, because it is older.

The graves are half concealed by arbours; many were ornamented with flowers and wreaths, or hedged by rose-bushes.

The whole aspect of this cemetery, or rather of this garden, seems equally adapted for the amusement of the living or the repose of the dead.
The monuments are in no way distinguished; only two are rather remarkable, for they consist of tremendous pieces of rock in their natural condition, standing upright on the graves.


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