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amphitheatre where the spectators were seated on a series of seven terraces. 

 The vast waterworks of Herrenhausen were very famous in their day ; 

 the cascade partly remains, occupying a wall of the eastern wing of the 

 palace, and consists of a series of rows of small basins, each overflowing in 

 turn to that beneath ; the extensive display of fountains involved a large 

 plant for pumping. 



At Salzburg the gardens of the Mirabell Schloss, laid out in the French 



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THE GARDEN AT HELLBRUNN IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



Style of the eighteenth century, may still be seen in something of their 

 original state, but a more interesting garden is that of the Schloss Hell- 

 brunn,! three miles to the south, laid out by Archbishop Marcus Sittich. Both 

 were designed by M. Diesel,- who modelled them upon the lines of Versailles 



^ For engravings see Die Garten Prospect von Hellbriin hei Salzburg. F. A. Danreiter, 1740. 

 2 Fortsetzimg erlustierenden Jugenzveide in zwrstelliing Herrlicher Gart-en und Lust gehaiide 

 n.d. I. Wolff. 



