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Bronze capitals, approacliing the Corintliian order, designed 

 Ly Sydney Smirke, E.A., surmount tie pillars and pilasters. 

 The columns support a frieze bearing (in letters five inches 

 liigh) the following inscriptions, upon a third line of polished 



" Let all the nations of the Earth be gathered together, and let the people 

 be assembled." — Isaiah xliii. 9. 



" I will remember the works of the Lord, surely I will remember the 

 wonders of old." — P.SALM Ixxvii. 2. 



Upon this rests a red polished granite pedestal to support 

 the figure on the top. In the original design, tlie statue, as 

 already mentioned, was to be an emblematic figure of Britannia; 

 by desire of the Committee this was altered into a figure of 

 Her Majesty. Mr. Durham accordingly executed a statue 

 of Her Majesty. The model was tried on a scaflblding erected 

 for the purpose, of the jsroper height, and received the approval 

 of H.R.H. the Prince Consort. To see tins statue was one of 

 the last visits tlie Prince paid to the Gardens, or the metropohs. 

 Wlidst being executed in bronze, tlie lamentable death of 

 H.E.H. changed the position of matters. The objection which 

 had been taken by himself to his own statue being placed 

 on the Memorial no longer existed. Her Majesty and H.E.H. 

 the Prince of Wales were the first to feel that the statue of 

 the Prince Consort ought to be the one to fill that place, and 

 under this feeling, the Prince of Wales at once proposed that 

 this should be done, m the affecting letter from him to the 

 Council and the Memorial Committee, afterwards quoted. The 

 proposed change was at once agreed to. Mr. Durham was 

 employed to model the statue. Beyond his own personal 



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