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acquaintances to Vauxhall, to see that much-vaunted 

 pleasure garden, where the youth of London, almost 

 [T. I. p. 450] every evening in the summer, divert 

 themselves. This pleasure-garden lies a little beyond 

 Westminster Abbey, ofvanfor W. A., but on the other 

 side of the river Thames. It is full of allies, planted 

 with Lime and Elm, Lind och Aim, where people can 

 walkabout. At one place is a high special A Item, built 

 with a roof over it, and benches in the A Item, on which 

 the musicians sit. At 6 o'clock in the evening, they 

 begin to assemble, when the music commences at 7 or 

 8 o'clock in the Altan, with a very large number of 

 different kinds of instruments, among which is also an 

 organ [orgor, as in French, in the plural.] When they 

 have played for some time, there appear Chanteurs or 

 Chanteuses, Sangare eller Sangerskor, who also sing 

 from the Altan, lata hdra sig fran A ; sometimes only 

 one sings, sometimes two, and sometimes three together. 

 While they are singing, they are accompanied now and 

 again by instruments. When they have continued for a 

 time, there is an interval, halles nagot up, both with 

 songs and music, when those who have come out there 

 either promenade, spatsera omkring, in the garden 

 or sit down at one of the many tables there are, and have 

 brought to them various foods and drinks, wines, confi- 

 tures, punch, meat, stek, apples, fruits, &c, which are 

 all tolerably dear, so that those who sell them do not 

 seem to lose anything by it. No man or lady enters the 

 garden without paying a shilling at the entrance. After 

 that anyone is free to buy anything or not. One can in 

 in the meantime listen to the music, walk about, see and 

 be seen, without any further cost. As soon as it begins 

 to be a little dusk, lamps are everywhere lighted up, 

 which are here in the garden in great multitudes, and 

 which burn for some time after 10 o'clock, when the 



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