FOXHALL, (Surrey) in the p. of Lambeth, on the S. W. side of the Abp. of Canterbury's palace, in the road to Battersey and
Clapham. This is the place, where are those called Spring Gardens, laid out in so grand a taste, that they are frequented,
in the 3 summer months, by most of the nobility and gentry, then in and near London; and are often honoured with some of
the royal family, who are here entertained with the sweet song of numbers of nightingales, in concert with the best band
of musick in England. Here are fine pavilions, shady groves, and most delightful walks, illuminated by above 1000 lamps,
so disposed, that they all take fire together, almost as quick as lightning, and dart such a sudden blaze, as is perfectly
surprizing. Here are, among others, 2 curious statues of Apollo the god, and Mr. Handel the master of musick; and in the
centre of the area, where the walks terminate, is erected the temple for the musicians, which is encompassed all round
with handsome seats, decorated with pleasant paintings, on subjects most happily adapted to the season, place, and
company. Near the turnpike, where the road turns off from this place to Newington, are still to be seen the remains of a
bastion, and of some lines cast up by the Romans. By the direction of these lines, which seem to have been thrown up from
Lambeth (to which the Roman military way crossed the Thames from the horse-ferry) quite round through St. George's-Fields,
Kent-Street, &c, to the Thames at Deptford, it is hardly to be doubted, that they were cast up to prevent the incursions
of the Britons into Kent.