Urnal interments and burnt relicks lie not in fear of worms, or to be an heritage for serpents.
During epidemics, or when deaths occur from infectious or contagious diseases, the interments must invariably be made within twenty-four hours of death.
In former times precipitate interments of persons who died suddenly were specially guarded against.
At such trying times, if ever, hurried interments are not merely excusable, but almost unavoidable.
Interments usually take place within forty-eight hours of death, but they may be carried out sooner during epidemics for the public safety.
He said he had the very best reasons for believing that the victims of hasty interments were more numerous than people supposed.
The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections demonstrated.
Quintilian explains why the Romans delayed burials as follows:--“For what purpose do ye imagine that long-delayed interments were invented?
The uncertainty of the signs of death and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections.
The earliest movements in the direction of means for the prevention of premature interments originated with Winslow in France, followed by other well-known writers upon the signs of death.
Recently, near Mentone, a series of prehistoric interments in caves has been exposed.
The roots of the grass and heather are ravenous after lime, and for this reason it is that of the many interments on the moor hardly a particle of bone remains.
Undoubtedly interments have been made within them; but none, so far, have been found in those on Dartmoor.
By the report[10] the existence of such a danger was strikingly demonstrated, and intramural interments were in consequence made illegal.
Now, had there been interments here in the seventeenth century, there must surely have been some traces of them.
Owing to the crowded state of the graves within, some interments have recently taken place outside the churchyard, and this slag has been dug up.
In Denmark as many as seventy deposits of burnt interments have been observed in a single mound, indicating its use as a burying-place throughout a long succession of years.
In later times the mound itself was frequently dispensed with, and the interments made within the enclosure of a trench, a vallum or a circle of standing stones.
In some of the barrows in central France, and in the wolds of Yorkshire, the interments include the arms and accoutrements of a charioteer, with his chariot, harness and horses.
Interments were made there long prior to the Revolution.
It is believed that there were later interments than this, but if so there are no stones marking the graves.
It comprises forty-one acres and the interments exceed 2,000.
Frochot, in 1801, to furnish to wealthy families the means necessary to give their interments the desired pomp, and he was, in fact, the first organizer of the Pompes funebres.
There was one rule which old Joseph would never break, and that was that there should be no interments after four o'clock.
The fingers of the old clock slowly crept along the dial-plate towards four, the hour so relentlessly enforced for interments for half a century by the sexton, who was now about to lay away his own wife in the greedy maw of the grave.
The quantity of gold remaining in so small a tomb shows how rich the large interments may have been, and how strong was the temptation to rob them.
I have not been able to learn anything of the character of the interments with which this specimen was associated.
All come from ancient burial mounds, some of the interments of which probably antedate, while others post-date, the coming of the whites.
Many of the interments of this region are probably post-Columbian.
The distinguishing characteristic of this defence was the central boss or umbo, of which such a large number have been found in Saxon interments (Fig.
Its occurrence in interments in this country is extremely rare, and but very few examples have come to light.
There were states, however, which, for various reasons, preferred that the interments should be within the walls.
Later, however, in many of the states, there were enactments passed which prohibited interments within the city limits.
Thus we see that just where people of the dark type occur abundantly at the present day, skulls of the corresponding sort are met with abundantly in interments of the Anglo-Saxon period.
The interments show us that the races which inhabited Britain before the English conquest continued in part to inhabit it after that conquest.
Then at a later period they were used forinterments of Saite date, and, lastly, they served as dwelling-places for the Copts.
And all that we were able to gather from these vestiges of the actual intermentswas that they were of the Ptolemaic period, but almost pure Egyptian in type.
The Fredericksburg cemetery is not the largest in area in the United States, but it has a larger number of interments in it than any other in the country.
A larger number of interments exhibit the fact that the bodies were placed there before the decay of the flesh, while in other cases collections of bones are buried.
The Egyptians embalmed, according to Cassien, because during the time of the annual inundation no interments could take place, but it is more than likely that this hypothesis is entirely fanciful.
In a small plain on the same island, near the above repository, is a long abandoned Indian burial-ground, in which the interments are made in the ordinary way.
Among the evidences of interments here since the discovery of Canada, were several brass kettles, in one of which were five infant skulls.
And they would appear, as is the case with the latter, to be re-interments of bodies, after the flesh had decayed, collected from their first places of sepulture.
Here, in the glory of summer foliage, is a superb setting for such a service; and the rare occasions of interments within this quaint God's acre are long remembered by those who witness them.
Interments in the vaults of the churches--then a common practice--were also a fruitful source of sickness and death.
Or those in Rotherhithe, where "the interments were so numerous that the half-decomposed organic matter was often thrown up to make way for fresh graves, exposing sights disgusting, and emitting foul effluvia.
In the fine series of cairns on Carrowkeel Mountain, County Sligo, burnt and unburnt interments were found associated with pottery, bone implements, and stone beads.
In the cairn excavated on Belmore Mountain, County Fermanagh, both burnt and unburnt interments were found with pottery and other objects of early Bronze-Age type.
Here remains of a rude old chapel can be traced, and around it are countless very early interments in unhewn stone graves, pointing east and west.
In connection with these remains of habitations are numerous relics of interments at some distance from them, for our primeval population always buried their dead away from the living.
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