CopenhagenAndItsEnvirons

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carriage-hoifees, stables, and riding-house. These buildings escaped the fire of 1T94. O ver the p rin cip al en tran ce from the S lo tsp lads is the follow ing in sc rip tio n :

Regiarn hanc Christianus Sextus exstruxit incendio funesto post LIV annos vastatam denuo erigi Christianus Septimus jussit splendidam restituit et inter Publica vota dicavit Fredericus Sextus MDCCCXXVIII.

on each side of which are two b a sre lie fs by Thor­ valdsen : Minerva and Prometheus, Hercules and Hebe; Jupiter and Nemesis, Hisculapius and Hygsea: and in niches on each side of - the entrance are four colossal figures of Hercules, Minerva, vEscu- lapius, and Nemesis; the first by Thorvaldsen, the others from his drawings by Prof. Bissen, and cast in metal by Dalhoff. JEsculapius arid Hygiea are indebted to their appearance in the b a s r c lie f to an amusing circum­ stance. In the list of suitable deities sent in to Thorvaldsen was Somdhedsgudinde (Goddess of Truth); but the Sculptor, unable to imagine any allegorical figure satisfactory to himself by which he could represent the Goddess, chose to read the word as Swndhedsgudinde (Goddess of Health); and thus it was that iEsculapius and Hygsea formed the subject of the basrelief! Am ong the m an y su perb apartm en ts, the m ost