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72 HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. THE NATIONAL CEMETERY. The National or Congressional Burial Ground is situated about one mile east of the Capitol, embraces about ten acres, commands an extensive * view of the country, is well enclosed with a brick wall, laid out with taste, and beautified with trees and shrubbery. It was located in 1807, and ever since been in the keeping of an incorporated company. The Monuments are manifold and many of them beautiful; and in addition to sev eral private vaults is one spacious and well con structed, enclosed by a neat railing, built by the order and at the expense of Congress, as a place of deposite, for the dead whose remains it may be the purpose of friends subsequently to remove. Measures have recently been adopted to en large this Cemetery, and some twenty additional acres will soon be brought within its limits. The number of interments which have taken place up to the present time is six thousand. A visit to the ‘ ‘ City of the Dead” cannot but prove interesting to the stranger visiting the Me tropolis, and among the few and picturesque monuments which will attract his attention, are those to the memory of George Clinton, Elbridge