STOW, (Buckinghamshire) 2 m. N. W. from Buckingham, the seat of Ld. Visc. Cobham, where are the most magnificent gardens in England, adorned with temples, pavilions, obelisks, &c. designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, Kent, Gibbs, &c. and with the statues and busts of Cain and Abel, of Lycurgus, Epaminondas, Socrates, and Homer, of K. Alfred, Edward the Black Prince, Q. Elizabeth, K. William III. and the Prince of Wales, the Earl of Chesterfield and Ld. Cobham, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Thomas Gresham, Ld. Verulam, John Locke, Sir William Penn, the poets Milton, Shakespear, and Pope, John Hamden, Inigo Jones, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir John Barnard, and Mr William Pitt, besides the statues of the nine muses, of the liberal arts and sciences, and of all the Saxon idols that gave names to the days of the week. In a close wood, there is a building called the sleeping-house; and at the head of a fine canal, there is an equestrian statue of K. George I. and here are two remarkable monuments to the memory of Signior Fido (a greyhound) and the poet Congreve. In short, to describe all the beauties of these gardens, would require many pages.