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travelled extra post through the Hollenthal, walking up the 

 hill at Steig amongst no end of strange flowers ; on our 

 right was the huge Feldberg, still with much unmelted snow 

 on its rugged top ; then we descended to the shores of the 

 Titisee, and soon afterwards arrived at Lenzkirch, where we 

 stopped to dine. This was our first incursion into scenery 

 of a really grand nature. Thuringia we had thought pretty, 

 but here we saw something far more than pretty, and as, 

 after leaving 1 Lenzkirch, we found the meadows assuming a 

 more subalpine flora, and beautiful, and, to us, strange in- 

 sects flitted on all sides, the idea struck me now many, 



HOW VERY MANY WOULD THAT SUMMER TRAVEL OVER 

 THAT VERY GROUND WE WERE THEN TRAVELLING OVER 

 WITHOUT REAPING ANY OF THAT INTENSE DELIGHT 

 WHICH SOME ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE PRODUCTIONS OF 



nature would afford them. Here in the meadows 

 were growing Trollius Earopccus and Geranium pra(e?me, 

 neither of which had I seen wild since I visited the lake dis- 

 trict of Cumberland in 1846 ; and what botanist has not felt 

 the pleasure (akin to that of meeting with an old friend after 

 years of absence) of finding after a lapse of time some plant 

 not seen for many years ? and who that is not a naturalist 

 can know that feeling? 



I have often thought that if Mr. Albert Smith in his 

 " Ascent of Mont Blanc" would give some details of the 

 successive changes of vegetation, and the different forms of 

 insect life, by which as he ascended from the verdant valley 

 to the snow-clad summit he found himself surrounded, he 

 would add much to the interest of his story with many of 

 his younger hearers. His capability of improving his tale 

 year by year, so as to make it ever interesting and ever in- 

 structive, induces me to throw out this suggestion; and if 



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during next August's recess he visits the land of mountains 

 and lakes, with the view of practically observing some 



