to the island on the 8th of August, and his
friend Charles Danzeus laid the foundation stone of the new observatory,
which consisted of a slab of porphyry, with the following
inscription:--

REGNANTE IN DANIA FREDERICO II., CAROLUS DANZAEUS AQUITANUS R. G. I.
D. L.,[37] DOMUI HUIC PHILOSOPHIAE, IMPRIMISQUE ASTRORUM
CONTEMPLATIONI, REGIS DECRETO A NOBILI VIRO TYCHONE BRAHE DE
KNUDSTRUP EXTRUCTAE VOTIVUM HUNC LAPIDEM MEMORIAE ET FELICIS AUSPICII
ERGO P. ANNO CIC.IC.LXXVI.[38] VI ID. AUGUSTI.

[37] Regis Gallorum in Dania Legatus.

[38] Transcriber's footnote: The second Cs in CIC and IC are
printed reversed in the original.

This ceremony was performed early in the morning of a splendid day, in
which the rising sun threw its blessing upon Frederick, and upon the
party of noblemen and philosophers who had assembled to testify their
love of science. An entertainment was provided for the occasion, and
copious libations of a variety of wines were offered for the success of
the undertaking.

The observatory was surrounded by a rampart, each face of which was
three hundred feet long. About the middle of each face the rampart
became a semicircle, the inner diameter of which was ninety feet. The
height of the rampart was twenty-two feet, and its thickness at the base
twenty. Its four angles corresponded exactly with the four cardinal
points, and at the north and south angles were erected turrets, of
which one was a printing-house, and the other the residence of the
servants. Gates were erected at the east and west angles, and above them
were apartments for the reception of strangers. Within the rampart was a
shrubbery with about three hundred varieties of trees; and at the centre
of each semicircular part of the rampart was a bower or summer-house.
This shrubbery surrounded the flower-garden, which was terminated within
by a circular wall about forty-five feet high, which enclosed a more
elevated area, in the centre of which stood the principal building in
the observatory, and from which four paths led to the above-mentioned
angles, with as many doors for entering the garden.

The principal building was about sixty feet square. The doors were
placed on the east and west sides; and to the north and south fronts
were attached two round towers, whose inner diameter was about
thirty-two feet, and which formed the observatories which had windows in
their roof, that could be opened toward