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sides are coffee-houses, conjurors, and
shows of all kinds. Here every evening,
during the summer, the walks are crowded
with well-dressed people, and the road
with splendid equipages; and here I saw
the new Vauxhall, as they call it, but it
is no more like ours, than the emperor
of China's palace. Nor is it at all like
Ranelagh; though, at the first entrance,
there is a small rotund, with galleries
round it, well lighted up, and decorated.
Next to this is a quadrangle in the open
air, where they dance in warm weather;
it is illuminated, and has galleries, that
are continued to another room, which is
square, and still larger than the first,
with two rows of Corinthian pillars orna-
mented with festoons and illuminations.
This is a very elegant room in which
the company dance minuets, allemandes,
cotillons, and contre danses, when the
weather is cold, which was now the
case in the extreme. However, here
was a great crowd of well-dressed people.
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