Et merito sibi carum
Paternæ benignitatis ac munificentiæ
Monumentum

RICHARDUS DUX BUCKINGHAMIE ET CHANDOSIE,
Gosfilda in hos hortos translatum
Hic inter tot alia

Majorum suorum vestigia
Locum habere voluit.
MDCCCXXV.

Lewis the King,
Having been restored
To the throne of France;
And Peace,

By the blessing of God,
To Europe;

RICHARD DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS
Removed from Gosfield
This Monument

Of the munificent and splendid
Hospitality of his Parents,
And placed it amidst these scenes,
Surrounded by the Memorials
Of his Ancestors.

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
Of solemn Oaks, that tuft the swelling mounts,
You pensive listen to the plaint of rills,
That purling down, their dewy murmurs shake
On the sooth'd ear.

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,
And shadows brown which sylvan loves,
When the sun begins to fling

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