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The island’s pleasure-ground was made more restful by beautiful bowers and arbors of grapevine, honeysuckle, eglantine, roses, and columbine. Beneath these blooming green roofs stood seats where visitors could rest while surveying what one nineteenth-century writer nostalgically remembered as “a scene matchless in loveliness.”
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