The whole area of the Bank, however, was not given up to mammon, though still here men most do congregate, and worshippers most do worship. One small consecrated spot, enough perhaps to leaven and memorize the whole site, was respected, and not built over. It was the churchyard of St Christopher. This ‘God’s acre’ the architect and the governors have dedicated to Beauty, Art, and Nature. The little ‘Garden of the Bank of England,’ the loveliest spot in all London at this day, measuring about twenty-four by thirty-two yards, was just a hundred years ago the little churchyard of St Christopher, where still repose the bones of THOMAS HARIOT. Virginia, which once comprehended the present United States from South to North, has been called the monument to Sir Walter Raleigh. So the Bank of England, built round the churchyard of St Christopher, may be called the monument to Thomas Hariot. The present year, 1879, is just three centuries since Hariot went forth, a youth of twenty, from the University of Oxford. We have briefly told his story. England is all the richer for his life, and the world itself acknowledges the wealth of his science and the worth of his philosophy. The Bank of England is built round his bones, but it cannot cover his memory. Stay, traveller, tread lightly ; Near this spot lies what was mortal of that most celebrated man THOMAS HARRIOT. He was the very learned Harriot of Sion on Thames ; by birth and education an Oxonian, Who cultivated all the sciences, and excelled in all, In Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Theology. A most studious investigator of truth, A most pious worshipper of the Triune God, At the age of sixty, or thereabouts, He bade farewell to mortality, not to life, July 2d A.D. 1621. He lived, died, and was forgotten in the parish of St Christopher. Henceforward, whenever Englishmen and Americans, merchants and scholars, rich and poor, men of genius and men of money, enter this little’ Garden,’ let them read there in English what Henry Percy originally set up in Latin, the above inscription.