"A troop of laborers to the number of sixty or more, well apparallelled, and wearing green Monmouth caps all alike, carried spades, shovels, pick-axes, and such like instruments of laborious employments, marching after drums twice or thrice about the cisterns, the mount, where the Lord Maior and worthy company stood presented themselves before to behold them, and one man in behalf of all the rest, delivered a speech in verse, narraof the work. It thus concluded ting the progress :

At the Opening of the Sluice : " Now for the fruits then, flow forth precious spring, So long and dearly sought for and now bring Comfort to all that love thee loudly sing, ;

And with thy crystal murmurs, strook together, Bid all thy true well-wishers welcome hither."

At which words, the flood-gates flew open, and the stream ran gallantly into the

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cistern drums and trumpets sounding in triumphant manner ; ; and a brave peal of chambers gave a full issue to the intended entertainment."

The accomplishment of this noble and disinterested enterprise, has justly immortalized the name of Hugh Myddelton. The Goldsmith's Company, of which craft he was, has his portrait among the decorations of their Hall, and in the year 1800, Robert Mylue, Esq., the engineer of the Company who own the river which Myddelton lias taught to pour its salubrious stream into the heart of London, erected on an islet in the basin at Amwell, a monument to his memory, one side of which bears this inscription :