PREFACE.

AUTHORITIES.

CONTENTS.

I. DUTY OF BURIAL.

II. BURIALS EXTRAORDINARY.

III. PREPARATION FOR BURIAL.

IV. THE LYING IN STATE.

V. OUTWARD GRIEF.

VI. THE PROCESSION.

VII. BURNING OR INHUMATION?

VIII. THE COFFINS.

IX. THE TOMBS.

X. THE FUNERAL FEAST.

XI. SACRIFICES AT THE GRAVE.

XII. FURTHER CEREMONIES.

NOTES

A DISSERTATION

BY

FRANK PIERREPONT GRAVES,

COLUMBIA COLLEGE.