'O Air! while the breath of life continued, our brother respired by thee: his last breath is now departed, to thee we yield him.
'O Water! thou didst contribute to the life of our brother: thou wert one of his sustaining elements: his remains are now dispersed, receive thy share of him who has now taken an everlasting flight.'
[182] 'Iron.'
[183] See foot-note, p. 39.
[184] F. A. Feudge.
[185] The descriptions of Dr. Santa are so admirably translated in 'Iron,' that I quote from that paper nearly in full.
[186] From a translation in the 'Saturday Journal.'
[187] Medical Inspector of Burials for England and Wales.
[188] For a scientific description of the patent regenerative gas furnace which took the prize medal at the London Exhibition of 1862 and the grand prix at the Paris Exposition of 1867, see the 'Journal of the Chemical Society' for July 1873; the lecture delivered by the late Professor Faraday at the Royal Institution on June 20, 1862; and the description published by Dr. Siemens, London, 1874.
The minimum cost of a complete establishment for cremation upon the foregoing model, i.e., for the furnace and gas-producer as given in Plate II., but not including a mortuary building, would be as under:—