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320 BROOKLYN hill, valley, and plain, and are traversed by 17 m. of carriage roads and 15 m. of foot paths. The elevations afford extensive views. Green- wood contains many beautiful monuments, chief among which are the pilots' and firemen's mon- uments, the soldiers' monument (unfinished), erected by the city of New York, and that Entrance to Greenwood Cemetery. to the memory of Miss Canda. In 1871 the total number of interments had been 154,803. The Cypress Hills cemetery, about a mile east of the city limits, beyond East New York, oc- cupies an elevated ridge of land, and contains nearly 400 acres, about one half of which is im- proved. The cemetery is beautifully arranged, and affords fine views of the surrounding coun- try. More than 70,000 persons have been in- terred here. In the soldiers' plot are buried the bodies of 4,000 soldiers. The cemetery of the Evergreens, incorporated in 1849, near Bushwick, contains 207 acres, of which 60 are within the city limits. The Citizens' Union cemetery, between Butler and Sackett streets and Rochester and Ralph avenues, contains 10 acres, and is designed as a burial place for col- ored persons. The cemetery of the Holy Cross at Flatbush contains 36 acres, and is the prin- cipal Roman Catholic burying ground. Other cemeteries in the vicinity are Calvary (Catho- lic), on Laurel Hill, Queens county; Mount Olivet, near Maspeth; Washington, 1J in. S. of Greenwood ; the Friends' cemetery, near the city line, S. of Greenwood ; and the Luther- an, between Cypress Hills and Mount Olivet. Nearly all the interments from New York are made in these cemeteries in and around Brook- lyn. Brooklyn is connected with New York by 12 steam ferries, belonging to five companies. The Greenpoint company runs two lines from the foot of Greenpoint avenue, the one to the foot of 10th, the other to the foot of 23d street, New York. The Houston street associates run a ferry from the foot of Grand street, Eastern District, to the foot of Houston street, New York. The New York and Brooklyn company runs lines from the foot of Bridge street, Brook- lyn, to James slip, New York; from the foot of Broadway (formerly 8. 7th street), Eastern District, to Grand and to Roosevelt streets, New York; and from the foot of Grand street, Eastern District, to Grand street, New York. The Union fer- ry company has a capi- tal of $1,000,000, and owns the following ferries : Catharine fer- ry, from Main street, Brooklyn, to Catharine street, New York; Ful- ton ferry, from Fulton street, Brooklyn, to Fulton street, New York; Wall street fer- ry, from Montague street, Brooklyn, to Wall street, New York ; South ferry, from At- lantic street, Brooklyn, to 'Whitehall street, New York ; and Hamilton ferry, from Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, to Whitehall street, New York. The boats of these ferries run constantly during the day at intervals of a few minutes, Fulton Ferry in 1791. and some of them all night. There are com- modious ferry houses for the accommodation of passengers, of which the most noticeable for its size and architecture is that recently