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is true, be reckoned in actual money : it is, however, a 

 matter which all noble-minded men will consider as not 

 insignificant. So far from its being insignificant, the 

 public enjoyment is something which very great states- 

 men in all ages have regarded as of the greatest im- 

 portance. 



At the same time with the establishment of the mili- 

 tary gardens at Manheim and Munich, several other 

 useful arrangements have been made and connected 

 with them. 



The supply of powder for the fortress of Manheim 

 has been removed from Heidelberg, and stored in two 

 newly erected powder towers on the MUhlau. This large 

 amount of powder was not only very dangerous for the 

 city of Heidelberg, but it was also always exposed to 

 the danger, in case war should break out, of being cut 

 off by the enemy from Manheim, and of being carried 

 away. On the Miihlau, it is in every respect much 

 safer. 



In order, however, to insure communication between 

 Manheim and its powder supply at all times, it was 

 necessary to construct a road from the powder towers 

 to the city, and that, too, higher than the highest point 

 reached by the water in the inundations of the Rhine 

 and Neckar. This road is now constructed on the dyke 

 which has been recently built around the Miihlau and 

 the Niedergrund ; and this dyke serves to protect the 

 military garden, the entire Niedergrund, and the Miihlau 

 against all inundations, and at the same time as an 

 agreeable promenade for the inhabitants of the city of 

 Manheim. 



In the military gardens at Munich and Manheim, 

 nurseries have been established, where the soldiers are 



