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approach from Munich. A long lime-bordered canal, ending in a fine water- 

 piece, leads from the city to an immense semi-circular forecourt, 600 yards 

 across, round which are grouped the white houses of various court func- 

 tionaries. 



Besides Nymphenburg there were several other Court gardens in 



THE CASTLE OF LINDERHOF. 



the neighbourhood of Munich, connected with each other by a network 

 of canals. They were all in the height of their glory about the early years 

 of the eighteenth century, and were designed by le Sieur Giraud and his 

 assistants. Dachau was laid out upon a very irregular site upon sloping 

 ground. Schleissheim and Lustheim were conceived upon such a gigantic 

 plan that, although the two palaces stood nearly a mile apart, the whole of 



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