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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 



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 Hnes of Versailles 



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

 2 Fortsetzung erliistierenden Augenzveide in vorstellung Herrlicher Garten und Lust eebaude 

 n.d. I. Wolff. 



