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overflowings from the serpentine river; 

 but tliis was omitted in the execution. 



Russell The cliflerent character and situation 



Square. r r n a 



or liusscU Square may furnish another 

 example. The ground of this area had all 

 been brought to one level plain at too 

 great an ex pence to admit of its being 

 altered; and the great size of this square 

 is in a manner lost by this insipid shape. 

 The Statue. Equestriuii Statues have usually been 

 placed in the centre of public squares, but 

 in one of such large dimensions no com- 

 mon sized object could be sufficiently dis- 

 tinguished: it was therefore very judi- 

 ciously determined (by a committee) to 

 place the fine Statue of the late Duke of 

 Bedford, now ])reparing by the ingenious 

 Mr.Wesmacot, on one side of the square 

 facing Bloomsbury, and forming an a])- 

 propriate perspective, as seen through 

 the vista of the streets crossing the two 

 squares. 



This pedestrian statue, supported by 

 a group of four figures, on a lofty pedes- 

 tal, will be of sufficient magnitude for 

 tlie breadth of the vista; though it would 



