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alone Europe, and now there are hundreds. I have no good rea- 

 son for doubting the authenticity of these stones, but the preva- 

 lence of counterfeiting in other matters of ethnology causes some 

 uneasiness when one notices such a sudden and enormous increase 

 in these comparatively easily imitated stones. Later I found them 

 equally abundant in the Australian museums. The Palm Garden 

 of this city surpassed any we had seen in the facility with which 



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one can pass through and examine the many beautiful conserva- 

 tories. Many if not most glass houses are crowded with plants, 

 and there is hardly passage for the gardeners, but here the houses 

 radiate from a central rotunda and visitors pass down one wide 

 path and up another so as to easily see the whole without danger 

 to the plants or discomfort to the visitor. Except at Dresden we 

 saw no better ribbon bedding in the open gardens. 



On the 19th July we left Frankfurt and the same evening we 

 arrived in a through car at Paris. With our usual good luck the 

 Sunday we were in Paris was the day for the monthly Gra?id Eaux 

 at Versailles, and I had an opportunity to compare the crowds 



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