294. 
Temple of Minden, and it must have been removed to the present site 
of the latter near the Unicorn Gate. Here Evans saw it in 1824 
(p. 125). 
The true Temple of Minden was the Temple of Victory. This stood 
in the Pleasure grounds ou the hill on y, which the Flagstaff was afier- 
wards erected. Chambers says (p. 5 
“It was Ls in commemoration of the signal victory obtained on the first 
of August 1759, near Minden, by the Allied Army, under Prince Ferdinand of 
Brunswick, over tia French army, commanded by the Marshal de Contades 
The Temple of Æolus was apparently built by Chambers ar he 
gives no date. Sir W. Hooker, in his report for 1845, says :— 
“The d saring, bs of ege. . has been removed and replaced, 
der the directi Mr. Burt a very c chaste wi pel of a similar kind, in 
а from the ВЫ design of Sh William Chamber: 
ced Ruined Arch (1759), near the aperui House, *a pas sage 
for carriages and cattle over one of the principal walks of the garden." 
The pes өү rs base 49 feet diameter, height 163 feet. 
Simpson says (p. 41) :— 
* All the - eed v the roofs of the stories were, at the time AJ "purge the 
Pagoda, adorned wi niens eighty in n vocet covered with oF thin 
resem which oduced a most dazzling reflection, but t which have 
long since lese removed.” 
SMEATON’S ENGINE. 
The engine to supply the gardens with water was designed by the 
celebrated e pm Smeaton, and ereeted under his direction in 1761. 
* [t answers," says Chambers (p. 4) * perfectly well, — by — 
* of two Бонна, ранив of 3,600 hogsheads of w п 12 hou 
It stood near the present Cumberland Gate, and was in use at least "till 
1850. 
There was no material alteration in the grounds as laid out by the 
Princess Augusta till the present century, and John Smith, who wa 
employed at Kew 1820, before it became a enm ш гы s 
he was appointed the first Curator, gives (“ Records,’ die the 
following account of the portion dedicated io scientific раан 
“The space allotted consisted originally of nine acres, enelosed by walls (the 
ornamental е now erage gr called the Temple of the Sun, being then nearly the 
centre of the garden), w as laid out and seientifically planted in m divisions, 
one containing a pobres te отырын plants, arranged according to the Linnean 
system, then in its infancy, but with which Aiton had become well sequined while 
serving under Miller. This division was called the Physic Garden 
“The second division was called the Arboretum, containing all the then known 
ct earl Д hardy ie and shrubs, scientifically arranged. Within the area were 
eral g 
Sir Jonn HILL. 
Sir John Hill, a prolific writer on gardening and botany, took much 
interest in Kew, and in 1758 (second ed., 1759) published an octavo 
remet of 458 pages, entitled Hortus Kewensis; being а Catalogue of 
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