This view exhibits the entire length of the choir, including the lofty Reredos. On the right and left are seen the Choir Stalls, Grinling Gibbons' famous work, and the two fine Organ cases. The fine Organ, originally the work of Father Smith, is a masterpiece of Mr. Willis, whose consummate skill, aided no doubt by the magnificent building in which the instrument stands, has found no higher expression than in this finished work. The Choir Aisles are entered through iron gates, of great delicacy and beauty, the work of M. Tijou. The marble Pulpit, from the design of Mr. F. C. Penrose, is a memorial to Captain Robert Fitzgerald. [Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL FROM THE WEST.] THE MONUMENT TO LORD NELSON. "The funeral of Nelson was a signal day in the annals of S. Paul's. The Cathedral opened wide her doors to receive the remains of the great Admiral, followed, it might almost be said, by the whole nation as mourners. The death of Nelson in the hour of victory, of Nelson whose victories at Aboukir and Copenhagen had raised his name above any other in our naval history, had stirred the English heart to its depths, its depths of pride and sorrow. The manifest result of that splendid victory at Trafalgar was the annihilation of the fleets of France and Spain, and, it might seem, the absolute conquest of the ocean, held for many years as a subject province of Great Britain. The procession, first by water, then by land, was of course magnificent, at least as far as prodigal cost could command magnificence. The body was preceded to S. Paul's by all that was noble and distinguished in the land, more immediately by all the Princes of the blood and the Prince of Wales." This account is taken from Dean Milman's _Annals of S. Paul's_. The Dean, then a youth, was present at the funeral, and could remember the solemn effect of the sinking of the coffin to its resting place, and the low wail of the sailors who bore and encircled the remains of their admiral. The monument, by Flaxman, originally stood at the entrance to the Choir. When the Choir was extended westward in 1870, it was removed to its present much more favourable position in the South Transept. [Illustration: THE MONUMENT TO LORD NELSON.] THE NAVE SEEN FROM THE WESTERN END OF THE CHOIR. In this view the two portions of the organ are seen. These grand cases formed the eastern and western fronts of the instrument when it stood over the Choir Screen; they exhibit some of Grinling Gibbons' finest work. The projecting portion on the north side formerly contained the Choir Organ; the corresponding projection on the south is a copy of the original work.