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field of ten acres was enclosed by a high fence, within which all the 

 objects of the fair were collected. The number of people admitted 

 to the grounds on the two days of the exhibition, is supposed to be 

 not less than from twenty-five to thirty thousand. 



A line of large buildings, erected for the purpose, extended for 

 several hundred feet through the centre of the grounds, and formed 

 a leading feature of attraction. The first, which was thirty-six feet 

 wide and more than one hundred feet long, was inscribed over th« 

 entrance, " FLORAL HALL," in rich letters of evergreen on a white 

 ground. The whole interior of the building, as well as the entrances, 

 was richly ornamented overhead, with beautiful and massive wreaths 

 and festoons of evergreen. In the centre of tTie building was a 

 splendid outline temple, " Dedicated to Agriculture and the Arts 



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