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hundred and feventy gentlemen may be conveniently lodged. 
The princes and princelfes have each feparate pavilions. The lide 
of the palace fronting the lake has a flight of Heps, with a balu- 
ftrade, which is ornamented with iron flower-pots. On a kind 
of platform, between the fteps and the caftle, ftand two fmall 
ftatues in bronze ; and another of the fame compofition is placed 
between the Heps and the lake, reprefenting Neptune. On the 
flair-cafe are two lions ot marble holding fcutcheons, and feveral 
other marble ftatucs. On the oppofite fide of the palace, parallel 
to the whole length of the building, is a terrace adorned with a 
baluftrade, and two brazen ftatues. In the midft of a grafs-plot, 
or bowling-green, on which a few yew-trees are planted, is a large 
bafin of w T ater, with a Hercules deftroying the hydra : there are, 
befides this, feveral pieces of water of fmall fize, and a number of 
figures in bronze are arranged around thofe bafins. At each end 
of the terrace is an iron gate, over one of which are two lions in 
bronze, and over the other two horfes. Defcending from the ter¬ 
race, you fee four large vafes and four ftatues of the fame metal. 
All the works in bronze which you obferve here, were taken at 
Prague in the thirty years war. On one of the vafes you perceive 
the cypher of the Emperor Ferdinand II. They are, for the moft 
part, in the ftyle of the Florentine fchool, in which the German 
artifts ufed at that time chiefly to ftudy. The walks in the garden 
arc well laid out, but in a fafhion that approaches too much the 
ftiffnefs of ftudied regularity. One quarter of it, called Canton, is an 
imitation of theChinefe manner. Here is eredted a large pavilion 
amidft 
