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and Saint Cloud. The gardens are full of curiosities ; raised upon a hill is a 

 casino known as the Monats-schlosschen, built within a single month, and a 

 garden theatre and water garden combined, where pastorals and operas 

 used to be performed before the archbishops, but the interest of Hell- 

 brunn is centred in the wonderful waterworks and fountains, which are still 

 preserved intact, and in working order. Water is made to accomplish 



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every variety of purpose, and some of the contrivances are very curious. 

 There is the representation of a town in all the bustle of daily life, the figures 

 in it as well as the music being driven by water-power. Munich was for- 

 merly a city of beautiful gardens, but these have almost all disappeared, the 

 Hof Garten, laid out in 1614, alone being kept up. 



The Palace of Nymphenburg (illus., pp. 254, 255), three miles from 



