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A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany; With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters
A View of Society and Manners in France Switzerland and Germany With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters Author:John Moore General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1803 Original Publisher: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell Subjects: Europe Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial ac... more »cess to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER LV. Casjel. J He city of Caflel is fituated on the river Fulda. It confifts of an old and new town. The former is the largeft and moft irregular. The new town is well built; and there, as you may believe, 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 dominions, Immediately without the town, there is a very beautiful building, in which he dwelli for the moft part of the fummer. The apartr ments there are neat and commodious, tomeof them adorned with antique fbtues of confiderable value. None of the rooms are fpacious enough to admit of exercifing 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. I 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 dedr, a fierce and lively animal, with a fltin beautifully fpotted; -- a very tall rein-deer -- fe- veral leopards -- a bear, and a great variety of monkies. The collection of birds is fti...« less