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in design. The roof glittering with Salviati’s mosaics ; the richly 
coloured glass in the windows, and the floor in different coloured 
marbles all surpass description. The last restorations have been 
nobly carried out by Sir Gilbert Scott, and the Chapel is probably 
surpassed by few ecclesiastical memorials in any part of the world. 
After lunch at the Castle Hotel, the members left in a break 
for a drive down the Long Walk and to Virginia Water. Entering 
from Park Street, near the iron gates leading to the Castle, they 
turned to the right and drove down the finest avenue of elm trees 
in the world. Straight as an arrow, but undulating in accordance 
with the gently swelling nature of the surface, it continues for 
nearly three miles to an eminence called Snow Hill, on which the 
equestrian statue of George III, by Westmacott, is erected. The 
elm trees, originally planted by Charles II, 1680, are showing 
signs of age, and the gaps are being gradually filled up by new 
plantations of lime and other kinds. The rain, which threatened 
to spoil the drive, now began to show signs of abatement, and 
turning to the left near Cumberland Lodge and Virginia Water 
they passed midway on the right hand the equestrian statue of the 
late Prince Consort, erected by the Queen, on Smith’s lawn, from 
a portion of the fund of the Women’s Jubilee Offering. On the 
left, just before descending the hill leading through the wood, are 
the remains of one of the old forest trees carefully propped up 
and cared for by her Majesty’s command. Leaving the break at 
the Blacknest gate, the members walked along the S. bank of 
Virginia Water, the largest sheet of artificial water in England, 
150 acres in extent and over two miles in length ; saw the Fishing 
Temple on the opposite side, looked in at the ruins, consisting of 
Corinthian pillars of Roman origin taken from Tripoli in 1825, 
and re-erected by Wyatville to represent the ruins of an old 
temple in a picturesque corner of the woodland, backed by 
some fine Scotch firs. The pillars are monoliths of red granite 
and a marble altar records that it was dedicated by Publius 
Aurelius to Jupiter Helios. Onwards to the cascade, artificially 
