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hundred yards long enclosed within high hedges and terminating in a 

 fountain and pavilion. It had side walks, slightly raised, from which 

 spectators might witness the game. A labyrinth, an orange garden and 

 an ingenious mechanical island were also among the attractions of Enghien. 

 The Park still existed in the early years of the nineteenth century, and 



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THE ORANGE GARDEN AT ENGHIEN. 



Loudon describes the famous temple and the grande etoile. The temple 

 was of a heptangular shape and at every angle were two parallel columns 

 placed about a foot apart. " From the seven large sides proceed as many 

 broad, straight and long avenues of noble trees affording rich prospects of 

 the distant country in all these directions ; and from the seven angles, and 

 seen between the columns, proceed an equal number of small and narrow 



