80.  The monument of Sir Thomas
Duppa is adorned with flowers and foliage,
and on the top with an urn wreathed.  The
inscription shews, that Sir Thomas in his
youth waited upon King Charles II. when
Prince of Wales, and at length became Gen-
tleman Usher of the Black Rod, in which
office he died April 25, 1694, aged 75.

81.  We come now to a monument that
has been much admired, and as much cen-
sured, that of Dame Elizabeth Carteret,
who died on the 26th of March, 1717,
aged fify-two.  This Lady is represented
springing upwards, with only one foot fixed
to the earth, and a little winged serapf de-
scending to receive her; but the dispropor-
tions are so great between them, that one
cannot help thinking, that it is much more
likely she should pull the aerial messenger
down, than he raise her one inch from the
ground; but what is still worse, her atti-
tude is such, that it is impossible she should
know that he is coming to give her a lift.
Below her hovering on the base, is another

82.  We come now to the grand and
magnificent monument of the great Sir
Isaac Newton, whose statue is formed re-
cumbent, leaning his right arm on four
folios, thus titled DIVINTY, CHRONOLO-
GY, OPTICS, and PHIL: PRIN: MATH: and
pointing to a scroll supported by cherubs.
Over him is a large globe projecting from a
pyramid behind, whereon is delineated the
course of the comet in 1680, with the
signs, constellations and planets.  On his
globe sits the figure of Astronomy, with her
book closed, in a very thoughtful compos-
ed and pensive mood.  Beneath the principal
figure is a very fine bas relief, representing
the various labours in which Sir Isaac
chiefly employed his time: such as discover-
ing the cause of gravitation, settling the
principles of light and colours, and reduc-
ing the coinage to a determined standard.
The inscription on the pedestal is in Latin,
short, but full of meaning, intimating, that
by a spirit nearly divine, he solved on prin-
ciples of his own, the motion and figure of
the planets, the paths of the comets, and
the ebbing and flowing of the sea; that he
discovered the dissimularity of the rays of