A takes half of the plums in the basket (30) and one
over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 + 1 = 16
B half of what remained (14) and one over  . . . . .  7 + 1 =  8
C half of what remained (6) and three over . . . . .  3 + 3 =  6
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Total    30

Now with regard to the origin of the city of Prague.  The former residence was much too small, and Libussa directed her workmen to build a town on the spot, where they should find at midday a man making the best use of his teeth.  They began their research and one day at that hour discovered a carpenter sawing a block of wood.  It struck them that this laborious man was making a better use of his teeth (viz., teeth of his saw) than the mere feeder and they judged that this ought to be the place where the town should be built.  They therefore proceeded to trace with a plough the circumference of the town.  On asking the carpenter what he was about to make with the block he was sawing, he said " A threshold for a door,” which is called Prah or Praha in the Bohemian language and Libussa gave to the city the name of Praha or Prag.

BERLIN, 24th Sept.

Berlin has a splendid and cheerful appearance, with fine broad streets, superb white buildings and Palaces, for the most part in the Grecian taste; it has quite the appearance in short of an Italian city.  Nearly all the streets are at right angles; they are kept very clean and the shops make a brilliant display.  I felt so much pain in my legs, from the effect of my pedestrian journey, that I was obliged to remain in my chamber one entire day.  There is a very good table d’hote at my bin for twelve Groschen.  Wine is paid for extra, and at the rate of from 12 to 18 Groschen the bottle.  The sort usually drunk here is the Medoc.  The prices of articles of prune necessity are dearer in Berlin than either at Dresden or Vienna; particularly the article of washing, which is dearer than in any country I have yet visited.

The next morning I began my rambles, and directed my course to the favorite and fashionable promenade of the beau monde, at all hours of the day, I mean in the fine street or alley Unter den Linden, so called from it being planted with lime trees.  There is a range of elegant buildings on each side, and at the end, near the Thier Garten (Park), is a superb gate called the Brandenburger Thor in the shape of a triumphal arch ornamented with a statue of Peace, with an olive branch in her hand, standing on a car drawn by four horses abreast, the whole groupe being of bronze and of exquisite workmanship.  The four horses are imitated from the Corinthian horses at Venice and yield to them in nothing but antiquity.  Indeed they have a much more pleasing and striking effect, in being thus attached to a car, than standing by themselves, as the Venetian ones do, on the top of the facade of a church.  This Brandenburger Thor is constructed after the model of the Propylaeum of Athens.