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thefe on the enlargement of the town were gradually pulled down. The
Spree environs it with two of its branches, thereby forming it into an ifland.
It lies indeed properly in the circle of Teltau, but is moft conveniently df-
^fcribed here. In it are twenty-five ftreets. As we come out of Berlin over
the long-bridge, the firfl: remarkable thing we meet with here, is the citadel-fquare,
and therein the very grand and internally magnificent royal par.
lace, which, reckoning from the ground, is four-ftories high. This palace
is not throughout of one regular and uniform plan, the feveral Eletflors,
down from 'Joachim II. having made additional buildings thereto. King
Frederick I. however, is to be confidered the principal founder of it, and
had not death cut him off in the midft of his plan, this building would
have exceeded all other European royal palaces whatever in extent and
magnificence. The State and other chambers here, in which the royal
perTbnages refide, are ornamented with excellent paintings and fumptuous tapeftry
in the moft beautiful manner, and in particular with fuch a quantity
of gold and filver furniture as is not to be met with in any European court.
For other matters we find alfo in this palace the royal cabinet of artificial and
natural curiofities, together with the palace-difpenfary, and the royal library.
Not far from it too ftands the new and magnificent Cahinift cathedral
church, which was dedicated in 1750, but is too low. In the vault
beneath it are the burying-places for the royal and eledoral corps. The
broad-ftreet here is really of confiderable breadth, and ornamented with
magnificent and fumptuous buildings, among which are the royal ftables.
Hard by it lies the new riding-academy. At St. Peters church is a provoftfhip,
and not far from it the Coln^ or Petrin gymnafium^ which is Lutheran.
The Coin market is decorated with grand houfes. The Fr derichjgraft and
the New Stechbahn boaft likewife fine houfes, of which numbers alfo are to
be feen in other parts of this town. The Muhlendamm lies juft in the centre
between Berlin and Coin, and near the adjoining grand and very profitable
royal mills, which ftand under an amt-ofiice of their own, runs the great
road from Berlin to Coin,
Neiv-Coln is now become a confiderable part of the old town of Coin,
from which it is feparated by the Spree, and confifts of about four ftreets,
which lie along the rampart and the Spree. In that ciiWtdiXhe Ramparf-flreet
are fome excellent houfes, as alfo the Sahhof, where the ftaple of the fait
from Halle is kept, which fait is exported from hence to the other royal
territories by means of the new canal and the Oder. In this part likewil'e
is the houfe and obfervatory of the late privy-counfellor Bernhard Frederick
oi Krofigk. In the fugar-refinery, which was founded not far from the
bridge on the Spree by the celebrated Splitgerber the merchant, out of one
caft of fix pans 12,000 lb. weight of fiigar are made, and the 100,000
earthen fugar-loaf moulds necelTary to each refinery are conftruffed hero by
a mafter and fixteen journeymen. In this fugar-houfe, and in that alio
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