enlargissements des voies actuelles,” and thence to have advanced the health and achieved the comparative security of four or five such cities as Lyons. One year’s cost of any one regiment maintained in the war on the Arabs would suffice to build and endow a school, or to have constructed between one and two miles of permanent railway. The total amount of capital so applied exceeds nearly by one-fourth the amount expended on the existing railroads in Great Britain. It may be confidently averred that the cost of the forts detaches, or _enceintes-continues_, said to be on a reduced scale upwards of ten millions sterling, would, if properly directed, with the accessaries of moral appliances in addition to such physical means as those indicated by the officers of public health, suffice within the period of the living generation, to renovate the physical and moral condition of the great mass of the population in the interior of that capital. Footnote 27: Vide Appendix—Explanations of the District Mortuary Returns. Footnote 28: _Vide_ other instances cited in the Annales d’Hygiene.—Number 59, p. 153 to 159. Footnote 29: Vide Regulations at Franckfort and Munich, Appendix. Footnote 30: Vide Appendix for the list of burial places returned, and a view of the spaces requisite on the preceding scale, § 145, and the relative space occupied as burial ground by the chief religious denominations. Footnote 31: It is due to the medical profession to state, that they have always discountenanced as injurious the practice of entombment in vaults under churches. A Parisian physician had the following epitaph to his memory:— “Simon Pierre, vir pius et probus Hic sub dio sepeliri voluit Ne mortuus cuiquam noceret Qui vivus omnibus profuerat.” At Louvain, there is the tomb of a celebrated anatomist, with the following:— “Philippus Verhagen, Med. Dr. et prof. Partem sui materialem Hic in cœmeterio condi voluit, Ne templum dehonestaret Aut nocivis halitibus inficeret.” Footnote 32: Perpetuities in burial grounds may be said to have been declared illegal by Lord Stowell’s decision in the case of Gilbert v. the Churchwardens of St. Andrew’s, Holborn, on the use of iron coffins. His lordship, in his judgment in that case, remarked, that “All contrivances that, whether intentionally or not, prolong the time of dissolution beyond the period at which the common local understanding and usage have fixed it, is an act of injustice, unless compensated in some other way.”—Haggard’s Rep. v. 2, p. 353. _Vide_ statement of the principle of this decision, in the extracts from the judgment given in the Appendix, No. 12. Footnote 33: