| 1 |
 |
“...healthy. On the side
of the cliff is a grotesque British lion sculptured by
Colonel H. J. Wilkinson, and though as a work of art it
cannot be compared with Thorwaldsen’s masterpiece at
Lucerne it is very cleverly executed. Below it is a
quotation from the Vulgate of Psalm lxxii, 8 :
DOMINABITUR . A MARI . VS AD MARE
A FLUMINE VS AD TERMINOS ORBIS . TERRARUM
which is translated, “ He shall have dominion from sea to
sea and from the river unto the ends of the world ” ; and
the inscription in doubtful Latin: “ Hen. Joa. Wilkinson
Gen. Coh. Ped. IX Britan. Trib. Castr. Sculpsit a.d.
mdccclxviii.” (Henry John Wilkinson, Colonel Com-
manding the 9th British Foot Regiment, tribune of the
Camp, carved it in the year 1868.)
Welchman’s Hall or Westwood Gully (f hour by motor-
car, ij hours by carriage by way of Warren’s, Cane
Garden, and Holy Innocent Chapel), with its luxuriant
tropical vegetation and Cole’s Cave (also an hour’s drive
from Bridgetown) both deserve attention. Like most
of the numerous gullies...”
|
|
