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At the entrance of the wood which shelters the 

 house from the east, stands a square pedestal, deco- 

 rated with antique medallions, supporting an urn, 

 with various figures representing the sacrifice of 

 Iphigenia. On this pedestal is a Latin inscription, 

 which in English is thus imitated : 



Diana holds, in this sequester'd grove, 



Divided empire with the queen of Love. 



While Phoebus shines, chaste Dian bears the sway ; 



Then fearless sleep, ye nymphs, the hours away, 



But when with darkening veil night shrouds this glade, 



In playful triumph Venus rules the shade : 



Ah ! then, ye virgins, fear the dangerous hour, 



Trust not the sighs which amorous youth may pour; 



For Love in sport derides perfidious vows, 



In darkness made beneath these verdant boughs. 



Nearly opposite the grand entrance in the north 

 front of the house, is an elegant monument com- 

 memorating the victories of lord Nelson ; with the 

 glorious and enthusiastic names ofAboukir, Copen* 

 hagen, and Trafalgar, inscribed on three of its sides, 

 in large golden characters : and in the centre of fine 

 avenues, bordered on each side with towering and 

 majestic trees, crossed at right angles, stands a 

 quadrangular 



OBELISK, 



One hundred feet high, erected in the year 1714, to 

 commemorate the victories of John, duke of Malbo- 

 rough ; and to fix the date of the erection of Castle- 

 Howard. The inscription relative to the duke of 



Malborough is in Latin, and may be Englished thus : 

 3A 



