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The Royal Grove may, with propriety, be stiled a hodge-podge, for here you have rope-dancing, singing, pantomime, wire-dancing, the warbling of birds, horsemanship, women vaulting on the slack rope, imitations of hounds, organs, and dying wild boars, stage-dancing, buffoonery, mimicry, and agility of all kinds; in short, the eye and the ear are amuse by an incessant variety, and we wonder how, in the name of Fortune, Astley contrives to procure such an assemblage of strange things.
