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A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany
A View of Society and Manners in France Switzerland and Germany Author:John Moore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3LETTER LV. Cassel. JL He city of Caffel is fituated on the river Fulcla. It confifts of an old and new town. The former is the largeft and moft irregular. The new town is well built;... more » and there, as you may helieve, the nobility and officers of the court have their houfes. The ftreets are beautiful, but not over-crowded with inhabitants. Befides the large chateau in the town of Caffel, which is the Landgrave's winter refidence, he has feveral villas and caftles in different parts of his deminions. Immediately without the town, there is a very beautiful building, in which he dwells for the mod part of the fummer. The apartments there are neat and commodious, fonicof them adorned with antique ftatues of confiderable value. None of the rooms are fpacious enough, to admit of exercifmg any confiderable number of the troops within their walls; but his Highnefs fometimes indulges in this favourite recreation on the top of this villa, which has a flat roof, moft convenient for that purpofe. Around this are fome noble parks and gardens, with a very complete orangery. There is alfo a menagerie, with a confiderable collection of curious animals. J faw there a very fine lionefs, which has lately loft her hufband—an elephant—three camels in fine condition, one of them milk- white, the other two grey, and much taller than the elephant; —an African deer, a fierce and lively animal, with a fkin beau- tifully fpotted ;— a very tall rein-deer — fe- veral leopards — a bear, and a great variety of monkies. The colleftion of birds is ftill more complete, a great many of which are from the Eaft Indies, In the academy of arts, which is fituated in the new town, are fome,valuable antiques, and other curiofities, among which is a St. John in Mofaic, done after a picture of Raphael's, with the following infcription b...« less