652 Life of Count Rumford. 



Bronze Foundry here, by Ferdinand von Miiller, and was erected 

 in 1867. The inscription on the front of the pedestal is : 



BENJAMIN THOMPSON 



Graf . 

 von Rumford. 



and on the reverse : 



Errichtet von 



MAXIMILLIAN II., Koenig 



von Bayen. 



" On a scroll in the hand of Rumford is inscribed, 



1 Englische Garten 

 Architecte.' 



" It was made at the King's private expense, he following 

 the example of his father, King Ludwig, in thus perpetuating 

 the memory of those men who made themselves deserving in the 

 annals of Bavaria. Bronze statues of Orlando di Lasso and 

 Gluck, composers and musicians, Westenrieder and Kreit- 

 mayer, historians and jurisprudents, Gaertner and Kleuze, 

 architects, etc., adorn other parts of the town. 



"Scarcely a city of the world can boast of a finer park than 

 that which owes its existence to the creative mind of the sub- 

 ject of your biography j and every citizen of Munich feels 

 grateful to the man through whose labor a dreary waste of 

 pebbly strand and marshy ground has been converted into a 

 garden, bearing on its broad breast the stateliest forest-trees, 

 groves of shady elms and beeches, with wide stretches of 

 undulating lawns between, and enlivened with streams of water, 

 now meandering under the wide-spreading branches of over- 

 arching bushes, and at the foot of towering hemlocks, now 

 Stretching out into a wide lake with green islands in its centre, 

 and now dashing over rocks in roaring cascades, and all supplied 

 by arms of the rushing Isar, which have been led here to beautify 

 the spot. 



"The English Garden, as it is called, is a park of six hun- 



