LETTER TO HIS BROTHER. 51 



we could not have made our way on foot. In 

 the evening we reached Ulm, where, owing to 

 the late hour, we saw almost nothing except 

 the famous belfry of the cathedral, which 

 was distinctly visible as we entered the city. 

 After supper we continued our journey, still 

 by post, wishing to be in Munich the next 

 day. I have never seen anything more beau- 

 tiful than the view as we left Ulm. The 

 moon had risen and shone upon the belfry 

 like broad daylight. On all sides extended a 

 wide plain, unbroken by a single inequality, 

 so far as the eye could distinguish, and cut 

 by the Danube, glittering in the moonbeams. 

 We crossed the plain during the night, and 

 reached Augsburg at dawn. It is a beautiful 

 city, but we merely stopped there for break- 

 fast, and saw the streets only as we passed 

 through them. On leaving Augsburg, the 

 Tyrolean Alps, though nearly forty leagues 

 away, were in sight. About eighteen leagues 

 off was also discernible an immense forest ; of 

 this we had a nearer view as we advanced, for 

 it encircles Munich at some distance from the 

 town. We arrived here on Sunday, the 4th, 

 in the afternoon. . . . My address is opposite 

 the Sendlinger Thor No. 37. I have a very 

 pretty chamber on the lower floor with an al- 



