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entertainment, to ſend around /¿çond cards, with the names’ of all who have aQually engaged to be preſet. In Hamburgh, every perſon may live after the faſhion of his own-country: You find in. it, in particular, both alc-houſes and chop-houjes, m the Engliſh ftyle. The Society of Hamburgh, for the Improvement of the Arts, deſerves to be mentioned with particular diſtinction: Îts School for the Arts of Deſig is attended by a conſiderable number of pupils: By ¿ſor Brodhagen reads, under its patron- age, highly intereſt Lectures on the Arts, to about 200 hearers; every Tix months, this ſociety makes a diſtribution of prizes for the beſt performances inthe arts. Thefts, robberies, murders, ftreet-quarrels, drunkennéſs,. are ſufficiently rare in Hamburg, i/ i It is no. where more common, than here, for the inhabitants of

the town to paſs a part of the ſummer in the country. Even the

ooreſt families have their country box, or at leaſt their country Vele ags: Yet, the edifices of the town aré daily multiplied, evén 1n great numbers, Here are, however, no hackney-coaches, nor even accommodations- for travellers, of the nature of the Engliſh fſtage-coaches. Bt, for building, the people of Ham- burgh, may be ſaid. to bave abſolutely a rages; the éhvirons pre- ſent a variety of delightful proſpe&ts. From the root of the HOUSE JIN THE WOOD, a place ófpublic entertainment, where youare ſerved withtea, ánd coffee,&c. the view 1s incomparably rich and beau- tiful. Fields, meadows, majeſtic woods, the ſweeping deſcent of 2 mighty river, a copious population, two great towns, a crowded Siarbour, and at the diſtant verge of the horizon, rural ſcenes, the moût piétureſque and intereſting, here meet the éye. Nothing can be more charming than the particular objets; nothing richer, nor happier, than their aſſembiage.

- The principa] building in Hamburgh is the Orphan Hoſpitad. It was creéted at a vaſt expence; and certainly does great honour to the humanity of. its founders. The cxchange 18s; however, but a mean edifice, in compariſon, at leaſt, with the commercial buñneſs which 1s now tranſaéted in it. The houſes fituate on the banks of the Elbe, without thie gates of Hainburgh, are, for the greater part, handſome buildings, 1n a good lyle of architecture; they are elegantly furniſhed, in the Engliſh faſhion. The public gardens, particularly thoſe of Harveſtehude, on the Alfter, at about the diſtance of a league from Hamburgh, are kept 10 A manner that renders them very agreeable places of ſummer amuſement. You go to Harveſtehude by water; and this advan- tage contributes to occaſion its gardens to be very much tre- quented. A ſort of boats, diſtinguiſhed by the appellation of arches, are common upon the Alſter; they are large enough to contain go or 40 perſons; and it is uſual to give ſuppers and concerts on board theſe veſſels, At Eimſbuttel too, 1s another beautiful garden, a favourite ſcene of reſort for the people of

Hamburgh. At Wandſbeck, is a ſpacious park, which the pro-

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