Here we cross the Serpentine River, over The SHELL BRIDGE, by Kent, which brings us to

The TEMPLE of BRITISH WORTHIES, by Kent; a Building cut into Niches, wherein are placed the following Buftos;

ALEXANDER POPE, who uniting the Correctness of Judgment to the Fire of Genius, by the Melody and Power of his Numbers, gave Sweetnefs to Senfe, and Grace to Philofophy. He employed the pointed Brilliancy of Wit to chaftife the Vices, and the Eloquence of Poetry to exalt the Virtues of human Nature; and being without a Rival in his own Age, imitated and tranflated with a Spirit equal to the Originals, the best Poets of Antiquity.

Sir THOMAS GRESHAM, who by the honourable Profeffion of a Merchant having enriched himself and his Country, for carrying on the Commerce of the World, built the Royal Exchange.

IGNATIUS JONES, who to adorn his Country, introduced and rivalled the Greek and Roman Architecture.

JOHN MILTON, whofe fublime and unbounded Genius equall'd a Subject that carried him beyond the Limits of the World.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, whofe excellent Genius opened to him the whole Heart of Man, all the Mines of Fancy, all the Stores of Nature; and gave him Power, beyond all other Writers, to move, aftonifh, and delight Mankind.

JOHN LOCKE, who beft of all Philofophers, underflood the Powers of the Human Mind, the Nature, End, and Bounds of Civil Government; and with equal Sagacity, refuted the flavish Syftem of ufurped Authority over the Rights, the Confciences, or the Reason of Mankind.

Sir ISAAC NEWTON, whom the God of Nature made. to comprehend his Works: and from fimple Principles to difcover the Laws never known before, and to explain the Appearances never understood, of this ftupendous Universe.

Sir FRANCIS BACON Lord VERULAM, who, by the Strength and Light of fuperiour Genius, rejecting vain Speculation and fallacious Theory, taught to purfue Truth, and improve Philofophy by the certain Method of Experiment.

In the Niche of a Pyramid is placed a Mercury, with these Words fubfcribed:

-Campos ducit ad Elyfos.

-Leads to the Elyfian Fields.

King ALFRED, the mildeft, jufteft, moft beneficent of Kings; who drove out the Danes, fecured the Seas, protected Learning, established Juries, crush'd Corruption, guarded Liberty, and was the Founder of the English Conftitution.

EDWARD, Prince of Wales, the Terror of Europe, the Delight of England; who preferved unaltered, in the Height of Glory and Fortune, his natural Gentleness and Modesty.

Queen ELIZABETH, who confounded the Projects, and destroyed the Power that threatened to opprefs the Liberties of Europe; fhook off the Yoke of Ecclefiaftical Tyranny; restored Religion from the Corruptions of Popery; and by a wife, a moderate, and a popular Government, gave Wealth, Security, and Respect to Enga

land.

King WILLIAM III. who, by his Virtue and Conftancy, having faved his Country from a foreign Master, by a bold and generous Enterprize, preferved the Li berty and Religion of Great-Britain.

Sir WALTER RALEIGH, a valiant Soldier, and an able Statesman; who endeavouring to roufe the Spirit of his Mafter, for the Honour of his Country, against the Ambition of Spain, fell a Sacrifice to the Influence of that Court, whofe Arms he had vanquifhed, and whose designs he opposed.

Sir FRANCIS DRAKE, who, through many Perils, was the first of Britons that ventured to fail round the Globe; and carried into unknown Seas and Nations the Knowlege and Glory of the English Name.

JOHN HAMPDEN, who, with great Spirit and confummate Abilities, began a noble Oppofition to an arbitrary Court, in Defence of the Liberties of his Country; fupported them in Parliament, and died for them in the Field.

Sir JOHN BARNARD, who diftingushed himself in Parliament by an active and firm Oppofition to the pernicious and iniquitous Practice of Stock-jobbing: At the fame time exerting his utmoft Abilities to encrease the ftrength of his Country, by reducing the Intereft of the National Debt; which he propofed to the House of Commons in the Year 1737, and with the Assistance of Government, carried into Effect, in the Year 1750, on Terms of equal Juftice to Particulars and to the State: notwithstanding all the impediments which private Intereft could oppofe to public Spirit.

The Cold Bath.

The GROTO ftands at the Head of the Serpentine Riner, and on each Side a Pavilion, the one ornamented with Shells, the other with Pebbles and Flints broke to Pieces. The Grotto is furnished with a great number of Looking-glaffes both on the Walls and Ceiling, all in Frames of Plaister-work, fet with Shells and Flints. A Marble Statue of Venus, on a Pedestal ftuck with the fame.

The

The Temple of Concord and Victory, is a large beautiful Building in the antique Tafte, decorated with 28 fluted Columns of the Ionic Order, and one of the principal Ornaments in the Garden. It has fix Statues on the Top, as big as Life, and the front Pediment is adorned with a Piece of Alt-Relief, by Mr. Scheemaker, reprefenting the four Quarters of the World bringing their various Products to Britannia.-In the Frize of the Por tico is this Inscription:

Concordia & Victoria.

To Concord and Victory.

In the Anti-Temple there are two Medallions defcribing Concordia Federatorum: Concordia Civium: Concord of the Allies: National Concord.

From this Portico is feen in a diagonal line,

AN OBELISK in the Park, above an hundred Feet high, Infcribed to Major General Wolfe.

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Oftendunt Terris hunc tantum Fata

The Fates but fhew him to the World.

1759.

This Obelisk ftands upon a Hill in the approach from Northamptonshire, which is very magnificent: At the Entrance from the Duke of Grafton's Foreft there are two Lodges from whence a very broad Line, of three Miles in length, conducting us through Woods, is terminated by the Temple of Concord and Victory.In the other diagonal Line from the Temple, ftands a lofty fluted Column, erected to the Memory of the late Lord Vifcount Cobham.

A Gravel Path leads by the Statue of Hercules and Antaus, fkirting the Valley, to the Circle of the dancing Faun, furrounded with Statues of Shepherds and Shepherdeffes.

Milton.

"And every Shepherd tells his Tale
"Under a Hawthorn in the Dale."
Winding through a Wood, not far diftant, rife

The

The Fane and Statue of Paftoral Poetry, holding in her Hand a Scroll with thefe Words,

Paftorum Carmina Canto.

I tune the Shepherd's Lay.

The Fane is adorned with Terms, &c. Here a moft pleafing Foreft-fcene prefents itfelf, formed by extensive Lawns of the Park, bounded with old Oaks; Next we cross over the Valley, and foon come to

Lord COBHAM's Pillar, One hundred and fifteen Feet high. Round the Base of the Column is written,

L. Luculli fummi Viri Virtutem quis? At quam multi Villarum Magnificentiam imitati funt? Tully's Offices. "Who hath imitated the Virtues of L. Lucullus, a truly great Man but how many the Example, in magnificently adorning their Country-feats ?"

On the Pedestal are the following Infcriptions:

On one Side.

To preferve the Memory of her Husband,
Anne Viscountess Cobham
Caufed this Pillar to be erected

In the Year 1747.

On the oppofite Side.

Quatenus nobis denegatur diu vivere,
relinquamus aliquid,

quo nos vixiffe teftemur.

"Inasmuch as the Portion of Life allotted to us is fhort, let us leave fomething behind us, to fhew that we have lived."

A Circular Stair-cafe leads to the Top, which commands a View over great part of the Counties of Buckingham, Oxford, and Northampton.

The Ladies Temple, is built upon Groin Arches, with Venetian Windows, and two Niches in each Front de. corated with Vafes; a great flight of Steps leads up to a Corinthian Portico, and from thence to a Room, fupported by Scaiola Columns, the Walls of which are adorned with the following Paintings by Mr. Sclater.

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