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_tions ; but tlie beloved Queen ' s illness filled all minds with anxious forebodingsand eyes and ears alike -were in a state prepared
to-, receive unusual impressions . Emerging on the other side of the Schloss , between the two
rearing , but forcibly held-in , bronze steeds presented to King Frederick William IV . by Nicholas of Russia , and which have been
so irreverently nicknamed by the people " Behemmte Fortsehritt " and " Beschleunigte Riickschritt" ( "Progress hindered" and
. * _'Retrogression encouraged ) , stationed in the midst of the terrace which gives dignity to this principal frontand which gains so
, festive an air from the Virginia creeper trained just within the balustrade in loosely drooping festoons from equidistant supports ,
a , simple yet most elegant device not " [ infrequent in this country , a scene appears the most striking of any that Berlin can afford _*
Immediately opposite , across a large open space surrounded with trees and laid out as a flower-gardenwith a copious fountain
, shooting forth its lofty column of spray forty-five feet high in the _centreis seen the long colonnaded front of the Museum , the
, domed Cathedral filling up the space between this and the Schloss on the one handwhile on the otherbut across an
inter-, , vening arm of the river , the Royal Arsenal completes the circuit , the whole group seeming to symbolize Government sustained by
Religion as its nearest support , then by the Arts and Sciences , and finallyas a last resourceby military force . Immediately on the
, , left appears the handsomest of Berlin ' s forty bridges , the Sclilossbriickeabove a hundred feet wideand decorated at intervals along
, , the- sides with eight lofty granite pedestals , surrounded by sculpture groups in white marbleallegorically symbolizing the
, career of a hero . In this noble Lustgarten , with its palatial surroundings , the
mind may well revert to that " Great _Elector" as he is justly called , the whose view statue here was beheld seen in on the the Long days Bri before dge , his and beneficent recal how different sway began was . j
Before the unfinished Schloss spread then no more elegant prospect than tlie Electoral kitchen-garden , and in the place of the Schloss
bridge , which now leads directly to the promenade , Unter den 'Lindenand the best half of the city , a narrow structure of wood i
, spanned the stream , and all beyond was an uncultivated wilderness . I There were no suburbs beyond the walls , for all contiguous dwellings i
had been laid in ashes , and within the city itself more than a | quarter of the houses were empty and the rest falling to decay ; j
most of them were thatched with straw , and a pig-stye in front was ! a usual addition . The wells were dried up or filled with rubbish ; j
the pavement that had been laid in some of the streets ( in all of ! whichat nihtdarkness reigned undisputed ) was sunk into dan- j
gerous , hollows g . , Oppressed with heavy taxes , , its coinage debased , ;
cro hunger wning in woe every , /¦ p-estilen household _-ce broo , and ded robbery over the in desolated every street city , , as and !
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/18/
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