Life of Count Rumford. 653 



dred acres. Its length is three and a half English miles, its 

 breadth about one and a half miles. It was planned and carried 

 out in 1789, by Count Rumford, at that time one of the Minis- 

 ters of the Elector Carl Theodore. It was subsequently en- 

 larged and improved by Maximillian Joseph, the first King of 

 Bavaria, and was further embellished with monuments by his 

 son, Ludwig the P'irst. Scarcely more than a hundred paces 

 from the Ludwig Strasse, one of the handsomest avenues of the 

 city, it commences, so that a few steps bring one from the bus- 

 tle and noise of a crowded street into the midst of quiet rural 

 scenery. At the entrance from this point stands a marble 

 statue of Youth, by Schwanthaler the elder, its inscription 

 intimating that communion with nature freshly strengthens 

 one for every duty. Farther on, following the carriage road 

 to the right, is the monument to the memory of Rumford. It 

 is of sandstone, with allegorical figures of Plenty and Peace 

 upon its face, and on the opposite side a medallion portrait of 

 Rumford." 



In copying for me the German inscriptions on this 

 memorial, which have been inserted on previous 

 pages, Consul Horstmapn draws my attention to 

 that almost untranslatable word lustwandler^ which I 

 had rendered <c saunterer," and which he renders "pedes- 

 trian." He remarks that the German word means a 

 person who is walking for the enjoyment of walking; 

 but is not represented either by the words "pleasure- 

 seeker" or <c pedestrian " (which would be fussgaanger} 

 as opposed to one who rides, or " promenader," or 

 " saunterer." 



The writer goes on to describe the Garden as it 

 now is. 



" Still further on, but more towards the centre of the park, 

 upon a hillock, is the 4 Monopteros,' a Grecian temple, built by 

 Ludwig, and dedicated to his father, Maximillian Joseph, who 

 did so much in sustaining and extending what Rumford had 



