tie base are four bas-reliefs, representing tbe Passage of the 

 Ticino ; the Battle of Goito ; the Abdication of Charles Albert 

 in favour of his son, Victor Emmanuel ; and his Death at 

 Oporto. At the four corners of the jjedestal are four statues of 

 Piedmontese soldiers, artillery, cavahy, infantry, and Bersaglieri 

 The monument was only lent for the period of the Great Exhi- 

 Ijition, and has since been removed. 



SOUTHERN TERRACE. 



" The terrace wall, with honeysuckle twined 

 And bashful clematis, whose virgin white 

 Veils with its clustered hair the stone behind." — Smedley, 



At right angles to the upper end of the Lateran Arcades run 

 the southern terrace walls. 



Each wall, both that on the east side and that on the 

 west side of the Garden, extends, parallel to the southern 

 boundary, into the Garden for 14.5 feet, then turns at a right 

 angle up the Garden for a few feet, where it meets the bridge, 

 and passing it, leads to steps by which access to the higher 

 ground of this terrace is obtained. The wall itself is built of 

 red and yellow brick, in alternate bands of about a foot and 

 a half in depth, and is surmounted by a cornice and handsome 

 balustrade. In each waD. are four blind arches facing the south, 

 and one after turning the angle. Seats have been fitted into 

 these blind arches or recesses. Between each pair of arches is ;i 

 pilaster, to which the cornice corresponds, and which is carried 

 up into a pier in the balustrade, on which stands a marble vase. 

 A border of flowers is placed against each interval between the 



