293 
way to a less artificial treatment, and to that kind of landscape RERA 
which is distinctively known as English. This is best suited to'the 
climatic conditions of the country, and Art only interferes to make the 
most pleasing use of the materials which Nature provides 
“The gardens of Kew are not very "rs nor is their situation hy any means 
advantageous ; as it is low and commands no prospects. Originally the purs was 
one continued dead flat, the soil was in send barren, aud d either wood or 
M ater. Ам, so many disadvantages i it was not easy to pro saat tolerable 
n gardening; but princely munificence, guided by a dent equally skilled in 
culating the earth and in the polite arts, overcame all difficulties. What w 
now an Eden. The toes eut with which art hath been employed to 
моны be defects of nature, and to cover its deformities, hath very justly gain 
universal admiration, o reflects sien mon lustre on the refined taste of the noble 
contriver; as the vast s which have been expen vip us el this arduous under- 
taking to perfection, as infinite Liber 3 to the genero d benevolence of the 
c— ema who with so liberal a hand уна А the superfluity of - 
asures in works w ich s serve at once to adorn the country, and to nourish i 
бои inhabitants 
Since Chambers wrote most of the defects which he pointed out have 
been remedied, but the barrenness of the sandy and gravelly soil will 
: always remain one of the great obstacles in the successful maintenance 
of the garden 
Sir William Сїйгєн erected throughout the grounds a number of 
fanciful buildings. Many of these were built of fragile ae and 
(p. 6 e th 
apparently in great haste. Thus (p. 6) he speaks of a brid rown 
over a narrow channel of water. “ Тһе design is, in ом. ‘measure, 
* taken from one of Palladio’s wooden bridges . here is 
~ erige remarkable in the whole except that it was erected in one 
* night." The less durable of the buildings, such as the Alhambra, the 
Mosque, the Gothie Cathedral, &c., have long disappeared. But anyone 
who is curious about them can see what they were like in the plates of 
Chambers's book where they are copiously illustrated. 
Evans ride p. 126) speaks of them in 1824 :— 
засаа raised by Sir William Cig ss bees sixty years ago (though 
оба ri, d viary, the m t od the mosque, &c., have hri = Tn are kept 
in such берде that ivy possess the freshness of modern ere 
The Alhambra stood a little N.E. of the POTE Of the Mosque 
"Chambers says (p. 6) :— 
* Near the Nen мо» оп а rising ground, backed with peng stands the 
Mosque was designed and built by me in the year 1761 
The site was certainly what is called on the Ordnance Map “ Moss 
Hill,” a name which probably i isa ag are of Mosque. 
The buildings that remain may be briefly enumerated, with their 
respective dates :—The Grinders (1761). Accordi ing to Se эте т 
(р. 35): “The initials of the Princess of Wales . 
“ affixed in front of the building by William 1V., in айй” fe: 
“ membrance of Her, who laid the os of all the surrounding 
* scenes.” The building is now known as Museum IIL. (Timbers, 
&c.) ; it contains one large room 142 feet by 30 feet, and iy feet high. 
The orange trees were removed to Kensington Palace in 1841. The 
Temple of the Sun. Of this Chambers says (p. 3): “ Its — is of 
* the circular Peripteros kind, but without an Attic ; and there is a 
ч particularity in the entablature of which the hint is taken from one 
“ of the temples of Balbeck.” The Temple of Arethusa (1758) near 
the Water Tower. The Temple of Bellona (1760), stood between the 
orangery, and the Temple of Æolus. It is evidently identical with the 
