jy, v , y & *1 (7 7 'V y. ‘7 Where Nature, lavish of her charms below, Deigned not a single beauty to bestow ; Nor tree, nor shrub, nor scarce a tuft of grass, To variegate the unprolific mass. Thus, waste and wild, for ages past it lay, A rude, uncultivated bed of clay. “ But Genius came — and in a circling line, With a free pencil, sketched the great design ! And, first, Imagination — fond to rove Through verdant shades — marked out the future grove. At once ten thousand infant plants she sees Advancing rapidly to lofty trees, Bcneatli whose shade the bard , in future times , Inspired shall rove and meditate his rhymes.* * “ ’Midst these she plans with true Palladian skill The stately pile to crown the favoured hill — principal estates — (proofs of which are extant in the Hundred Records) — as an annual tribute to the Lord. A ceremony, of high importance to widows, is mentioned with much naivete in Leland’s Itinerary, as peculiar to the Manor of Kilmersdon. The same subject is pursued with an air of solemn humour, in the eighth volume of the Spectator. Perhaps the origin of these pleasantries may be traced to a not very dissimilar custom which Plutarch describes to have been practised at Cunne, a city of Campania, near Puteoli. * Mr. Joliffe, the active and energetic occupier of those wild tracts, which, till he became their possessor, had so long been suffered to remain unreclaimed, was peculiarly entitled to appropriate the expressions of Cicero — “ Mei sunt onlines, mea descriptio; multre quoque istarum arborum mea manu sunt satai ” — and, as his valuable life was protracted far beyond the average extent of human existence, he had the gratification of seeing many of the plantations, with which he had so tastefully embellished the local scenery, attain a maturity at once ornamental and profitable. 6 AMMERDOWN. And while, without, rich ornaments unite With symmetry to charm the judging sight, Magnificence with purest taste we find Within the hospitable dome combined — Where polished kindness greets each honoured guest, And Anna’s smiles exalt and crown the feast. *■ *- * •*- * * “Nor think the Muse ideal visions feigns, Lo ! Joliffe now has realised the scenes. By magic skill with pleasure and surprise ’Midst thriving woods we see the structure rise ; Round which utility in league with taste To verdant lawns converts the dreary waste. What late was barren, now a fertile field, Large crops of richest grain is taught to yield. The soil with moss o’ergrown and noxious weeds, Now numerous flocks in verdant pastures feeds — While busy hinds, who various tasks pursue, Present a cheerful landscape to our view. “ Wealth, thus employed, is Heaven’s peculiar store, To bless the rich, and aid th’ industrious poor.” Within the limits of tlie enclosure, there is almost every variety of soil, except that of chalk. Some of the sidelands are a stubborn clay ; the lower grounds are a deep rich loam ; and the uplands, presenting a level surface of nearly two hundred acres — are of a light sandy nature. From the western edge of these, forming an extensive natural terrace, a wide and bold prospect is unfolded, embracing the range of the Mendip Hills, and being terminated in the extreme distance by the remote outlines AMMERDOWN. 7 of the Welsh Mountains. It is contemplated to erect, on the most command- ing point, a lofty column, with an internal staircase conducting to the summit : — Ur Kev Te\( rH . n O 3 'S ‘g +- r — ^ • 3 a £ H .«« 2 _2 rJZj 0 to £ '•H '-5 ci ' o 3 tu c/> 1 ^ o ^ hJ r o kk kj S5 ^ W v ° ^ ° ka fck H ^ C -Q in k TJ ^ k w &H ^ o=: k k q § Is tO f 1 -! V !1 03 , S-| § 2 CC Q 2 ^ ^ Pj 5 •<-< V 0) “ ^ s s a S h £ 2 § 3 ^ 5 2 V £ i ™ S § 5 2 .0 3 r-P ^ O > ^ £ i:J > <±j * M rS n3 - 3 o p ,4-> > o r^j J £ ^T 'Clo - ri P ^ : ^ O 4h 02 ^ ^ . 3 ^ 7d .3 i*f£ 5 o ^ > ^ ti P > 3 o O r^> cri Ph 0 AMMERDOWN. 21 the King’s affairs were become quite desperate, as Mr. Joliffe is represented with a melancholy desponding countenance, with his pistols and sword hanging on a pillar before him. He remained faithful to his Sovereign to the last, and attended him on the scaffold .” 9. Ball, by Cornelius Jansen. 10. Landscape, by Decker. 11. View of one of the principal approaches to the Metropolis, towards the close of the last century, supposed to have been drawn by De Loutherbourg, in 1785. MORNING DRAWING-ROOM. In this portion of the central story is a recently-furnished Music Room, adorned with some highly-finished drawings, representing, with other historical subjects, the adventures and death of the celebrated circumnavigator, Captain Cook.* Over the harpsichord is a Landscape, in Oil Colours, representing a view in the neighbourhood of Seven Oaks, selected by Mr. T. R. Joliffe and Professor Cornillot, in 1825, for the scene of their first aerial ascent; the object of which was, by a peculiar adjustment of * The modern furniture is varied by a writing table, formerly belonging to Gibbon, the Historian : and a harpsichord, on which the celebrated Astronomer, Sir William Herschell, gave instructions in music to a distinguished resident in the hundred of Kilmersdon. 22 AMMERDOWN. the ballast, to establish the possibility of maintaining a balloon — at any given height — in a stationary position, relative to its distance from the ground ; the inflated substance, while acted on by the wind, being neither depressed nor elevated, but wafted forward in a direction parallel to the earth’s surface. A repeated ascent confirmed the theory of the aeronauts. Among other Drawings in Water Colours is Romulus taking the Augury, sketched from the original of Salvator Rosa, by W. Havell. There are also engravings presenting very striking resemblances of the celebrated General Dumourier, and of the Yicomte de Chateaubriand ; and full-length portraits of Kemble and Mrs. Siddons. There is also a lithographic copy from a portrait of Mr. Hope Vere — but it is very imperfectly drawn, and fails to convey any accurate idea of a youthful person distinguished by the graces of his countenance, and the elegance of his figure. In addition to these, is a large coloured print of Napoleon I., taken previously to his abdication of the imperial dignity in 1814. The portrait of the youthful hero, when reviewing the elite of his army in the court of the Tuilleries, is so perfect a contrast to that of the same person when arrayed in the robes of Sovereignty, that scarcely any two representations can be more dissimilar. In the former character, lie was accustomed — with the form and activity of Mercury — gracefully to vaidt on his charger, and direct the evolutions of the troops, with a precision and celerity as admirable as unrivalled, When advanced in life, he seems, in many respects, to have been negligent of external appearance. Certainly he cannot be said to have “ preserved his figure ; ” which became so enlarged as to lose almost all its symmetry and elegance. The countenance, as originally delineated, is little indicative of the feelings which are AMMERDOWN. 23 supposed to have habitually influenced him ; and the features appeared stamped with the character of melancholy, rather than with the impress of sternness and inflexibility. Nihil metus invultu ! Gracia oris supererat ! The following highly graphical description is from the pen of the accomplished Madame D’Arblay : — “ I had so near, though so brief, a view of the first Consul’s face, as to be very much struck by it. It is of a deeply impressive cast, pale even to sallowness ; while, not only in the eyes, but in every feature — care, thought, melancholy, and meditation are strongly marked with so much of character, nay, genius, and so penetrating a seriousness — or rather sadness — as powerfully to sink into an observer’s mind. “ Yet, though the busts and medallions I have seen are in general such good resemblances, that I think I should have known him untold, he has by no means the look to be expected from Buonaparte, but rather that of a profoundly religious and contempla- tive man, who o’er books consumes not only the midnight oil, but his own daily strength, and wastes the ‘puny body to decay,’ by abstruse speculation and theoretic plans, or rather visions ; ingenious, but not practicable. But the look of the commander , who heads his own army — who fights his own battles — who conquers every difficulty by personal exertion — who executes all his plans — who performs all he suggests ; whose ambition is of the most enterprising, and whose bravery is of the most daring cast ; this, which is the look to be expected from his situation, and the exploits which have led to it, the spectator watches for in vain. “ The plainness also of his dress, so conspicuously contrasted by the finery of all around him, conspires forcibly with his countenance, so sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought. to give him far more the air of a student than a warrior.” IN THE PRINCIPAL EASTERN BED-ROOM THERE IS A Portrait of Mrs. Joliffe, by Romney. And in a bed-chamber fronting the West, there is placed over the mantelpiece a picture of the Honourable Mrs. Westenra. That lady was the eldest daughter of William 24 AMMERDOWN. Joliffe, Esq., and married early in life to the affluent and accomplished Sir Gilbert East. Subsequently she became the wife of Colonel Westenra, member for one of the Irish counties, and second son to the late Lord Rossmore. The painter has failed to do justice either to the complexion or the features of the original ; the former was bright and fair — the latter were strikingly handsome, and irradiated by an ardent expression of benevolence. SOUTH-WESTEKN ATTIC. Portrait of Mr. Winnington, M.P. Mr. Winnington was a distinguished Member of the House of Commons, during the administration of Sir Robert Walpole. Note. — The description of the paintings is unavoidably imperfect, from the additions which are constantly being made, and the consequent changes in the position of the exist- ing collection, which, though limited in number, is enriched by productions of celebrated Masters. LONDON • PRINTED 11 Y MACDONALD AND TUGWELL, BLENHEIM HOUSE. BATH AND THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 617 district should bo the hotbed and focus of disease ; and indeed the worst forms of typhus and other fevers originated there, and from time to time added wofully to the mortality of the city. To the credit of the cor- poration, that state of things no longer exists : the social pests have been driven from their hiding-places, the material filth has been purged away, and the place of the rogues and lawless vagabonds is now filled by the honest and industrious poor. This moral reform, we may add, has by no means been confined to the district above described. Within our remembrance Bath was essentially a profligate city : we should not be allowed faithfully to describe here what were the social aspects of the place forty or fifty years ago ; enough to say that the impure vices which ordi- narily lurk in secrecy and darkness here paraded in public and in the full glare of day. The invalids who came hither in search of. health brought in their train a dissolute crowd of gamblers, rakes, and free livers, who, with their numerous retainers, exercised the worst in- fluence on the citizens. It seemed to be the rule then that a course of medicine must be accompanied with a course of dissipation in order to render it effective, and that the medical man was useless without the master of the ceremonies. People who trembled at consultations in the morning were seen whirling in the waltz at night ; and fading dowagers, whose last lees of life wore run- ning out, found at the gaming-table that excitement which nothing else could afford them. Had the British Association existed at that period, Bath would have been the last place they would have selected for a meeting; and, had they gone thither, their reception might have been comparable to that which Bunyan’s pilgrims met with in Vanity Fair. But better times have come : the generation which has transformed one of the old centres of dissipation into a literary insti- tution receives the lovers of social science with a hearty welcome, and gladly instals them in possession of the queenly city. So, in this year 1864, we see the Bath season inaugurated, not by the rush of fashionable and fast livers from all parts of the country to some titled Amphytrion’s rout and cram, but by the arrival of the lovers of progress and the disseminators of all those practical truths which are calculated to cheer and ame- liorate our human lot. We need not recount the proceedings of the Associa- tion, which the reader who seeks such information can collect for himself from the local publications of the day, which duly record the President’s address, the sectional reports, the lectures, the discussions, the conversaziones, the excursions made to different points in the neighbour- hood, and the various other movements of the members of the Institution. There is matter enough to be found in Bath and its environs to interest the lovers of art or science, and to afford them the means of profitable in- vestigation in any department of study they may affect. There is an ample field for the geologist in the vast bed of sandstone which underlies the whole neighbourhood and, in a thousand places upon the surrounding hills and level downs, crops out from the soil, dotting the short green sward with masses of lichen-covered rock ; there are the coal strata within a few miles, which supply the city with fuel. A pleasant drive will land a party at the picturesque rocks and caverns of Cheddar, or a bracing walk will introduce them to the precipitous crags of Wick. The antiquarian may find a sufficient field for his investigations in the neighbourhood of the hot springs, or, wearying of the oity, can transport himself in some half-hour to the matchless old church of Red- cliffe : he may succeed in mapping out the ancient Roman station on Claverton Down, or he may trace the old fosseway, still recognisable in the track towards Salis- bury Plain. Stonehenge and Avebury lie at no very great distance ; and, at various points in the out-lying country, there are barrows, and tumuli, and hoary tri- liths, memorials of Saxon or Druidical times, most of them within easy compass. As for the artist or the lover of the picturesque, he will find satisfactory enter- tainment in whatever direction he may turn. Bath is the centre of a district abounding in the elements which go to the composition of a fine picture : there are rich umbrageous woods and wide-spreading wastes ; there is the highest cultivation skirting the barren sheep-fed downs ; there are precipitous heights overlooking the deep valleys ; and everywhere there is diversity of hill and dale, and winding brooks, and gray and purple summits of exquisite contour and outline rising in the distance. Among other results that may ensue from the presence of the British Association here, and the memories they will leave behind them, we may reasonably expect will be the revival in the inhabitants of the city of a regard for their peculiar advantages, a profitable renewal of their acquaintance with subjects of local repute and in- terest, and an improved familiarity with the natural beauties by which they are surrounded. AMMERDOWN MEMORIAL COLUMN. In Ammerdown Park, Somersetshire, about ten miles south of Bath, there is a pillar worthy of the notice of professional architects, from the peculiarity of its con- struction, and of all visitoi’s for the elegance and sym- metry of its form. The column is a memorial of Thomas Samuel Joliffe, Esq. M.r., who seems to have honourably fulfilled the duties of a country squire and magistrate in his district. His son, the projector of the memorial, put the matter into thehands of Joseph Jopling, Esq., as archi- tect. Instead of imitating any of the classical columns known in history, as most architects would have done, Mr. Jopling, an enthusiast in geometry and its applica- tions to art, designed a pillar every line of which is a true practical geometrical curve. Having erected a gigantic wooden platform in an omnibus yard in London, all the curves in the design were produced on zinc plates, from which the moulds were made. A model was then con- structed, a duplicate of which was sent to Ammerdown for the use of the clerk of the works. All the moulds — bed-moulds, face-moulds, and side-moulds — having been numbered from the base upwards, the whole was com- pleted easily by the workmen, with the aid of occasional correspondence with the architect. The column is one hundred and fifty feet in height, and stands at an elevation of eight hundred feet above tho sea, the summit being thus at nine hundred and fifty feet. The highest point of the Mendip, seven or eight miles off, is nine hundred and ninety-nine feet. The profile of the shaft of the column is a cuspidated conchoid more than eighty feet long.* This is sur- mounted by a glazed dome.f The diameter of tho capital is sixteen feet, that of the top of the shaft being * The symmetrical conchoids were discovered move than 2000 years ago by Nicomedos. Hogarth has remarked that "the Romans never comprehended the truths that' tho ancient Greeks had attained to;” certainly not in the samo application oC the laws of geometrical forms and proportions to architecture. t It may be suggosted whether tho Monumont of London and tho I)uko of York’s Column would not only do improved in appearnneo, but rendered much moro agreeable to spectators at top, if inoiosed by glazed domes. Visitors to Ammerdown will well comprehend this. < ///*. 618 AMMERDOWN MEMORIAL COLUMN. ten feet. The column stands in a scrolled terrace in- scribed in a circle of one hundred feet in diameter. There is a concrete foundation, and large stones of native rock, eleven feet thick and forty feet square. The steps within the staircase, up to the floor of the crystal dome at top, are of iron, with a hollow newel. There is light from eight windows, and from the door on the south side to the gallery in the pedestal. Within the wall forming the staircase from the foundation, four channels or flues, each sis inches in diameter, were carried up, and the steps were added as the work proceeded. When it reached the circular part, every course was adjusted by a prepared radii rod, a hole at one end of which was placed on a pin, on the cap of tho newel, as the centre of the staircase advanced, the rod having a separate hole for the radius at the top of every course of stone from the bottom to the top of the shaft. When the work had advanced to a sufficient height, a revolving scaffold, which had been prepared and proved on the ground, was placed on the top of what was then built, and then the scaffold was elevated by screws, from time to time, to admit of the next course of stones under it. The scaffold was held firm in its several positions by four larch poles placed in the flues just named, and in which several feet in length of the poles remained after each advance of the scaffold. These flues were afterwards used as ventilators, being con- nected with the top of the gallery surrounding the staircase in the pedestal, and for channels for the pipes that convey the water that falls above the capital and on the dome to the drain at bottom. The proportions of the following well-known columns are given for comparison : — Built A. D. M amo. At Order. Heig Ft. lit. in. Diameter. Ft. in. 108 Trajan Romo Doric 115 0 12 0 102 Antonino London 123 0 13 0 1671 Monument 172 0 15 0 1800 Napoleon Duke of York Paris 115 0 12 0 1832 London 109 0 11 0 1839 N elson » Corinthian 145 G 10 C At top of the shaft, 10 feet diameter ; 1855 Joliffa Ammerdown Original 150 0 and at bot- tom, at tho crisp of the conchoid, 20 feet diameter A more detailed explanation of the several parts will lie interesting to professional readers, commencing with the terminus “ crest,” and from it descending. “ The band proper that holds the sword” is of glass, and weighs about twenty pounds. The “ white” on the arm is por- celain ; the gilded crelcent on the arm indicates the second son. The late Colonel Joliffe, who laid the foun- dation, and dedicated the column to the memory of his father, died before the column was up half its height. “ The wreath of his colours,” at the bottom of the “ crest,” is a form produced by a repetition of practical geometrical curves, represented by twisting two cylin- H' rs, of tho respective colours, together a given number of t imes round a circlo. The curved line of each of the eight rods, which elevate tho "crest,” is developed from a plain section of a cylinder. These eight rods are covered with two hundred and forty-eight strong glass beads. The crown of tho dome has sixteen leaves, with per- form ions between them, above the band, which rests on the dome, and round which is the motto, “TANT. QUE . •Til . rUTSj” the commencing and the ending words being separated by the " Mnltoso Cross,” a geometrical form used in the famed Mausoleum. The letters of the motto, and the white parts of the cross, are porcelain. The sixteen leaves of the crown are gilded, as are also the fillets at the top and bottom of the band, to which they are fixed by studs. The edges of the leaves of the crown are a circular arc, when on a developed plane ; but, as bent to a conical surface, they produce lines with vary- ing curvature, in various projections and perspective ap- pearances. The point of each leaf is tipped with glass. The glass of the dome was -all bent to true form by moulds sent down to the glass-works. The glass is divided by sixteen standards, which are connected by horizontal belts. The lowest row of glass has a double metal panel behind it. The front panel is perforated by a flame-formed curve, which form is gilded on the back panel, which covers the stone-work behind it. This flame-form is a projection of an intersection of a sphere with a cone, and it has been seen at a distance of three miles, looking like a candle. From the same intersection of a sphere with a cone, more than twenty distinctly dif- ferent curves applicable to art can be projected. The dome fits over the stone-work like a thimble on the end of a finger. The ball at the bottom of each standard between the glass is twelve inches in diameter’, and one half of each is let into the stone-work behind ; so that, without any other fastening, the belted or hooped depre, like a cask, is held in its position by about fourteen tons of stone-work. Each ball rests on a strong glass disk, let into the stone-work below it. The second row of the glass of the dome from the bottom is double glass, with a perforated panel between. It is coloured on both sides, and that is protected by the glass, as are also the edges of the perforations, which are gilded; and their forms indicate adjustments by which some of the curves applied were produced. At a convenient height, in each division between the stand- ards, a part of the glass can be opened by a person in- side, either for ventilation or for seeing more distinctly, with or without a telescope, in every direction, from the walk round the top of the staircase inside the dome ; from whence it will be observed that twelve of the standards terminate at a circle within the crown, form- ing an opening to the revolving ventilators ; under that, only four of the divisional standard bars continue and meet at the centre of the dome, where their in- tersection is covered by a boss. That boss is formed of portions of eight spheres with conical intersections. The four largest spheroidical parts are mitred together ; AMMERDOWN MEMORIAL COLUMN. 619 and these show, in positions within the dome, the cardioid of mathematicians. Then four smaller are inverted and placed round a central sphere. From the boss upwards proceeds a stem, in which the pivot of the venti- lator is turned on its centre by either of the four brass balls at the end of the projecting wires, by which tho openings are either made, or closed more or less as may be desired — the openings being covered by small per- forations in a zinc plate which surrounds them. There are seven hundred and sixty-eight buttons or studs for fixing the linings and the glass of the dome to the stand- ards and ribs — those on the standards varying in di- ameter, thickness, and distance apart as the standards vary from top to bottom in size. Returning to the out- side to the stone-work, at the base of the dome there are openings left through that part from the staircase to get to the outside at the top of the capital to do anything that may be required ; while those spaces conveniently near the top can be used as closets to put in anytbiug wanted at any time to refer to or use in the dome. The capital of the column, in its greatest projection, was so arranged that the stones forming it should not over- balance, but that the end within the wall should bo the heaviest. Of course this was made more secure when the stone-work above was added. The profile of the upper curve of the capital is the development of a plane section of a cylinder. The curve of the large moulding under it in profile is a line of beauty. Both these characters of curves, equally true and beautiful, can be produced with equal facility, vary- ing indefinitely as may be desired. The curve of the profile of the shaft of the column has already been re- ferred to. Immediately under the shaft of the column one course of stones is the frustum of an acute cone of sixty degrees apex angle. The course under, foi’iuing the cap of the pedestal, is also a frustum of a cone ; its upper surface, if produced, gives an apex angle of one hundred and twenty degrees. That course, being cut by four vertical planes, gives the four large beautiful hyperbolas a3 pediments to the side of the pedestal; and the corners, being cut off, give the four very delicate hyperbolas over the angle windows, formed for the space between the cissoidal lines forming the eight curved angles of the pedestal. The outline of the marble archi- trave of these angle windows, it will be observed, is an egg-form, adapted to the space between the cissoidal lines — not an -ellipse, with both ends alike, which would be inappropriate, as may be seen in the roof of the great reading-room at the British Museum, where there are elliptical panels between the converging ribs. The archi- traves of the door, the eight windows, and the tablets are eaoh one piece of Sicilian marble. The spheres, slabs, and tablets for each side of the entrance are of the same marble. The glass of the door and of the eight windows is double. In the does 1 and in the four circular windows stained glass, representing various family arms, in lead, is fixed between the plates. The steps, as has been stated, are of iron, with a hollow Dewel ; there are one hundred and seventy-eight iron steps, and one hundred and seventy-eight three-inch solid glass balls — one be- tween the end of each step and the stone of the staircase. Besides the one hnndred and seventy-eight iron steps, tb.ere are twelve steps of stone from the surrounding level of the park up to the inside of the staircase, making one hundred and ninety risers to the floor in the dome. It may be desirable to remark here that, in the exca- vation made for the foundation of the column, a “ chasm” was found in the rock, about three feet in breadth, and in the direction from n.e. to s.w., that was entirely filled with the finest vegetable mould, tho corresponding bed of rock on the n.w. side being about three feet lower than that on the s.e. side. The subsidence, whenever it took place, must have been the most gentle possible ; for the small particles of top rock, hard and short like tho bones of fingers, were seen hanging disjointed and bent down in the vegetable mould, about three feet lower on the one side than on tho other, while there was no break in the surface of the ground. The great fault in the coal-beds at Radstock is about three miles off. The plummet has recently been suspended in the central tube, “ and it did not deviate from tho point in the base in the least.” “Neither birds nor snow have in any way injured tho crown or any part of the column.” The recent earth- quake shook the parish, but did not injure the column. After tho column was completed, it was ascertained that some of the curves applied were not only related to such as bad been produced on the first discovery of tho septenary system in 1822, but the attention of nume- rous persons, including mathematicians, bad been directed to them during all the intervening time to 18.17, when they were found to be intimately related to what were then named “ trisection curves.” Not only “ trisection,” but the division of any angle into any number of equal parts can be directly and exactly produced by the requi- site number of divisional curves. This has since been communicated to the Society of Arts. The use of most of the stone applied to the external parts of the column was suggested by what tho late Dr. Buckland said at Taunton, 2fith September, 1849, in refer- ence to Doulting stone, employed in Wells Cathedral. Some stone, however, of a very superior bed, from a quarry called Myrtree, was used for the base moulding of the pedestal and for tho top stones of the capital, and the plinth of the dome. It may hero be stated that the profile of the curve of the base moulding and of tho upper curve of the capital is formed of precisely the same por- tions of the same line, the base moulding having one quickest point of curvature in the middle, varying each way to a point perfectly flat ; while the curve applied to the capital has one point in the middle of true con- trary flexure, from which each way the curve varies to the quickest point of curvature in such line. All the interior stone was got from Farleighdown, and is of a white colour. It is reported that all the Myrtree and Doulting stone used in the column stands the weather remarkably welL The following is the English inscription on the tablet on the west side, Latin and French inscriptions to the same effect being on the north and the east sides : — THIS PILLAR 13 EJECTED TO COMHEKOJUTH the GSJrrvs, enehqy, axd ACCosn>i,7SHMENTj or THOMAS SAMUEL JOLIFFE, Esq., LORD OF THE ADJACENT HUNDRED OF XILMERSDON AND WELLOW J WHO, — IN EVERY RELATION OF LIFE, — IN THE SENATE — AND ON THE SEAT OF JUSTICE — IN EXERCISING THE PECULIAR RIGHTS, AND IN DISCHARGING THE VARIOUS DUTIES OF AN EXTENSIVE LANDHOLDER, CONCILIATED THE REGARD AND ESTEEM OF AN AFFLUENT AND INTELLIGENT DISTRICT: TO HIM, WHO RECLAIMED THE SURROUNDING LANDS FROM THEIR ORIGINAL WILD AND STERILE CONDITION; WHO CLOTHED THEM WITH FERTILITY AND VERDURE, AND EMBELLISHED THEM WITH TASTEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL DECORATIONS, HISViDESGENDANT, J. TWYFORD JOLIFFE, ESQ., WITH FEELINGS OF PROFOUND AND GRATEFUL AFFECTION, DEDICATES THIS COLUMN, 6th June, 1863. The column was first exhibited to the public on the 12th Ootober, 1857, when a banquet was given to a select number of visitors, who were entertained by a band and the ascent of balloons. Many thousand visitors have since been at Ammerdown, most of whom have expressed their admiration of so symmetrical a structure. It is open to tho public on Tuesdays and Thursdays. MKHCRDOWN 1 AI F. MORTAL COLUMN ^ \' sW V v \ • s.' *,.'-JTy >V‘>/'/'/' v>a> r >>> 5so?c* §gfe /\VVV '.S.SS' SN v S’vS *4 v ; '>-'- V2K t f^J;. ■"->' Me - ■ v..x v x :y .‘v> rVMViH -■ i V' ^x^n^xGv\VS*y ^ 5 v V % w r «, r v r ^ - \' V i 'C'' v' /J 'C / > , s ^ w 1 ^ -fw ''i rvi m>: asggs '‘N ^ 1 ''n^‘V> ** •» v :y>^vr /> • : - _ ■». \ , iq Y > ..•*», v. ’vy^v .'»►.' y:»**»o ■>.. •* . \ V’,-. . >v .-•>-. ,.-r. .. •-.. , ■ . 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