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peace, and of confolation, in their faces, flioiild be 

 arranged toward the centre of the ifland, around 

 a vafl moffy down, under the trees of the Country, 

 fuch as (lately beech-trees, majeftic pines, cheft- 

 nut-trees loaded with fruit. There, Jiktwifc, 

 fhould be feen the vine wedded to the elm, and 

 the apple-tree of Normandy, clothed with fruit of 

 all the variety of colours which flowers difplay. 

 From the middle of that down fhould afcend a 

 magnificent temple in form of a rotundo. It fliould 

 be furronnded with a periftyle of majeftic columns, 

 as was formerly at Rome the Moles Adriani, But I 

 could wifli it to be much more fpacious. On the 

 frize thcfe words might appear ; 



TO 



THE LOVE OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



In the centre, I would have an altar fimple and 

 unornamented, at which, on certain days of the 

 year, divine fervice might be celebrated. No pio- 

 dudion of fculpture, nor of painting, no gold, nor 

 jewels, fhould be deemed worthy of decorating 

 the interior of this temple j but facred infcriptions 

 fliould announce the kind of merit which there 

 received the crown. All thofe who might repofe 

 within the precinds, undoubtedly would not be 

 Saints. But over the principal gate, on a tablet of 

 T 2 white 



