Et merito sibi carum RICHARDUS DUX BUCKINGHAMIE ET CHANDOSIE, Majorum suorum vestigia Lewis the King, By the blessing of God, RICHARD DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS Of the munificent and splendid A. D. 1825. From a bench is seen A FOUNTAIN of white marble, from whence flows a Spring of the purest water. On a tablet is placed the following inscription from Thomson: Here pause in silence, while beneath the shade The walk leads on to THE GROTTO. The trees which stretch across the water, together with those which back it, and others which hang over the cavern, form a scene singularly perfect in its kind. The front of it is composed of rough stone. The inside is finished with a variety of shells, spars, fossils, petrifactions, and stalactites. At the upper end is a circular recess, in which are two basons of white marble: in the upper is placed a fine marble statue of Venus rising from her bath, and from this the water falls into the lower bason, from whence it is conveyed under the floor to the front, where it falls into the river through the lower cavern. A tablet of white marble contains the following lines from Milton: Goddess of the silver wave, To thy thick embower'd cave, To arched walks, and twilight groves, His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring. THE TEMPLE OF CONCORD AND VICTORY, is a large beautiful building, decorated with twenty-eight fluted Columns of the Ionic order, and one of the principal ornaments in the gardens. It was originally designed by Kent, from the measurements (which it nearly follows) of the Maison Carreè at Nismes, but it was unfinished, particularly in the internal decorations, till the year 1763, when it was completed under the |