Rambles through the British Isles . all, making the air cool with their refreshingshowers, and flowers from all lands filling it with their richestperfume. Scattered through the pleasure-grounds and gar-dens, are copies in bronze and stone, of the most celebratedsculpture of the world. Here is Francis, Hercules, the graceful Mercury of Thorwald-sen, the Venus of Milo, and the Paris Conova; here, also, arenumerous allegorical statues, as of Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast,]\Ianchester, Sheffield, Birmingham; and of South America,Turkey, Greece, China, India, Russia, Canada, and the UnitedStates. AU
Rambles through the British Isles . all, making the air cool with their refreshingshowers, and flowers from all lands filling it with their richestperfume. Scattered through the pleasure-grounds and gar-dens, are copies in bronze and stone, of the most celebratedsculpture of the world. Here is Francis, Hercules, the graceful Mercury of Thorwald-sen, the Venus of Milo, and the Paris Conova; here, also, arenumerous allegorical statues, as of Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast,]\Ianchester, Sheffield, Birmingham; and of South America,Turkey, Greece, China, India, Russia, Canada, and the UnitedStates. AU around are beautiful temples, vases and urns, ofvarious fashions and forips. As a whole, this fairy-like struc-ture, with its park, pleasure-grounds, gardens, and fountains;its rich collection of sculpture, both ancient and modern; itspicture-galleries, combining the new and the old; its manywonders, trom near and far-off lands, is the j^ar excellence, thegreatest sight in or about London—yea more, the greatest inthe Avorld ! #-. Witli joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. XIX. A Sabbath in London. Sabbatbs, like way-marks, cheer the pilgrims path,His progress mark, and keep his rest in view. — Wilcox. (^%P )sjVATE on Saturday evening, I reached London,-) and was therefore unable to procure a ticketof admission to Spurgeons Church. Sunday-morning having come, I left my hotel quiteearly, passed down to the river, where I went on^ board one of the passenger boats, which in a fewminutes took me to the London Bridge. The Tab-ernacle is a little more than a mile south of theOn my way thither, I entered into conversation witha gentleman who was journeying in the same some inquiry as to the location of the church, he
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