CEMENTATION

When a solid body is surrounded by the powder of other substances, and the whole heated to redne , ^ie proce is termed cementation. Iron is said to be converted into steel by cementation with charcoal. CEMETERY.ture,an edifice or area(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.)are interred.In Architec-The most celebrated public cemeteries of Europe are those of Naples, one near Bologna, of Pisa, and the more modern Paris i an one of PBre la Chaise. That of Pisa is particularly distinguished by the beauty of its form and architecture, which is early Italian Gothic. It is 490 feet long, 170 feet wide, and 60 feet high, cloistered round the four sides, and contains 50 shiploads of earth, which the Pisans brought from Jerusalem. It was long matter of complaint and regret that England po e ed no public cemeteries; and in the year 1832 a company was formed in London with the view of supplying this desideratum. The land selected for the first experiment contains in extent about 50 acres, and is situated at Kensal Green on the south of the Harrow road. This receptacle for the dead is denominated "All Souls Cemetery;" and whether we regard the "ood taste or the public spirit displayed by its projectors, it is well entitled to the support of the community. (See the British Cyclopaedia.) Since that time various cemeteries have been designed and formed in different parts of the country; »nd there is every ground to believe that, independently of other advantages, the benefits which cannot fail to accrue to the health of large towns, particularly, from schemes of this nature, will ultimately lead to their sreneral adoption. In the Companion to the British Almanac for 1839, there is an excellent description of the Norwood and High gate cemeteries, and some of the previous numbers of the same publication contain an account of all similar works in England then in progre or completed. [s. 220]