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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER XI
13/98

I felt so much reminded of my beloved Prater, that I expected every moment to see a well-known face, or receive a friendly greeting.

Kroll's Casino, sometimes called the Winter-garden, is built on this side of the park.

I do not know how to describe this building; it is quite a fairy palace.

All the splendour which fancy can invent in furniture, gilding, painting, or tapestry, is here united in the splendid halls, saloons, temples, galleries, and boxes.

The dining-room, which will dine 1800 persons, is not lighted by windows, but by a glass roof vaulted over it.


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