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to waste any more time or money on shows, and therefore, turning towards the green plat, mingled with the croud which passed to and from the spring. All who visit the park make a point of tasting this water; its coolness and clearness are extremely agreeable. A box stands near the spring to receive the offerings of the charitable; and it is pleasing to add, that those who come to be happy themselves, do not forĀ­ get others, whom age, distress, or sickness, has prevented from sharing in their pleasures; as the contributions annually received in this way for the parishes of Gientofte and Lyngbye, are very considerable. We drank of the spring, and left the park by the way of Klampenborg Tavern, along the sea shore. At some little distance hence, the Count Schimmelmann has a beautiful country seat, reared on an eminence, at the foot of which is the spring of Emilia. The Count has erected a monument to the memory of his wife, and that it might be a symbol of his excessive grief, he caused the water to spout from an eye, on which account, the spring is vulgarly

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