CHIPPENHAM CLIFT. Injure me not. WICK HILL. A statue of Maud Heath, a purely imaginary likeness of course, since no portrait of her is known to exist, was set up on a pillar on the summit of Bremhillwick Hill in 1838 by the Marquis of Lansdowne and a local clergyman. The pillar is forty feet high, and the seated statue on the top of it represents Maud Heath in the costume of the period of Edward the Fourth, with a staff in her hand, and a basket by her side. An inscription bids-- "Thou who dost pause on this ærial height, Where MAUD HEATH'S Pathway winds in shade or light, Christian wayfarer in a world of strife, Be still--and ponder on the path of life." The sentiments are admirable, if a little depressing: the verse atrocious. [Sidenote: _IMPROVING SENTIMENTS_] But worse remains. There are three dials on the pillar, with an inscription on the side facing the rising sun-- "VOLAT TEMPUS. "Oh, early passenger, look up, be wise: And think how, night and day, TIME onward FLIES." Opposite Noon is the advice, "Whilst we have time, do good." "QVUM TEMPUS HABEMUS, OPEREMUR BONUM. "Life steals away--this hour, O man, is lent thee Patient to work the work of Him that sent thee." For Evening the admonition is not a little alarming--if taken literally. "REDIBO. TU NUNQUAM. "Haste, traveller! the sun is sinking low; He shall return again--but NEVER THOU." The passing wayfarer might well ask why he should never return along this road! The late vicar of Bremhill did these metrical paraphrases of the Latin which led so tragically, but whose qualities, as verse, resemble the average of the ordinary Pantomime librettist. Maud Heath's charity is still in existence, and is now worth about £120 per annum, a sum amply sufficient for keeping her Causeway in repair. XXXVI