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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: on the kindness of my readers, if I proceeded to describe them all seriatim. I must, therefore, content myself with offering a few brief remarks on the more important of them, reserving for more exhaustive consideration only two districts, viz, the Spreewald and the Spreeland, the peculiar features of Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: on the kindness of my readers, if I proceeded to describe them all seriatim. I must, therefore, content myself with offering a few brief remarks on the more important of them, reserving for more exhaustive consideration only two districts, viz, the Spreewald and the Spreeland, the peculiar features of which seem to require a more minute and careful study. Tegel. Tegel, a village and summer-resort, about four miles north-west of Berlin, though unconnected by rail with the city at the period of my residence there, attracted a large number of visitors in virtue of its charming situation on the banks of Lake Tegel and its highly interesting associations. It may be reached by carriage, or by taking the train to Spandau, and going on from there by the Havel steamer across the beautiful Tegel- See. This, though a somewhat more circuitous route than the other, has many advantages in the way of scenery. There are, indeed, few more charming lakes in the vicinity of Berlin than this large and handsome sheet of water, which is, in reality, an offshoot of the Havel, a kind of landlocked bay, as it were, surrounded by lofty wooded banks, and with several largish islands at its mouth. Tegel will ever be memorable in the world of science as having been the country seat of the Humboldts. They possessed a pretty little bijou schloss or chateau here in the midst of a very picturesque park, commanding here and there most romantic views of the broad lake below stretching far away to the south. The schloss, though no longer the residence of anymember of the Humboldt family, being occupied only by a caretaker, still contains a number of works of art, chiefly presents to the Humboldts from royal and other distinguished persons. The brothers William and Alexander, with other members of the Books, Law~~General, Reminiscences-Of-Berlin-During-The-Franco-German-War-Of-1870-71~~Shephard-Thomas-Taylor, 999999999, Reminiscences Of Berlin During The Franco-German War Of 1870-71, Shephard Thomas Taylor, 0217852750, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<