Nearly All The
Streets Are At Right Angles; They Are Kept Very Clean And The Shops Make A
Brilliant Display.
I felt so much pain in my legs, from the effect of my
pedestrian journey, that I was obliged to remain in my chamber one entire
day.
There is a very good table d'hote at my bin for twelve Groschen.
Wine is paid for extra, and at the rate of from 12 to 18 Groschen the
bottle. The sort usually drunk here is the Medoc. The prices of articles of
prune necessity are dearer in Berlin than either at Dresden or Vienna;
particularly the article of washing, which is dearer than in any country I
have yet visited.
The next morning I began my rambles, and directed my course to the favorite
and fashionable promenade of the beau monde, at all hours of the day, I
mean in the fine street or alley Unter den Linden, so called from it
being planted with lime trees. There is a range of elegant buildings on
each side, and at the end, near the Thier Garten (Park), is a superb gate
called the Brandenburger Thor in the shape of a triumphal arch ornamented
with a statue of Peace, with an olive branch in her hand, standing on a car
drawn by four horses abreast, the whole groupe being of bronze and of
exquisite workmanship. The four horses are imitated from the Corinthian
horses at Venice and yield to them in nothing but antiquity.
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