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the Bavarian capital. He likens the districts he passed through 

 during his journey to perpetual gardens : they are not limited by 

 landmarks, nor do their crops of wheat or barley exhibit a single 

 vestige of any weed or an intruding red poppy. Trees, single or in 

 groups, occur sufficiently often to diversify and break the monotony 

 of the extensive sheets of arable land outstretched before the view. 

 The ever-changing series of hills was often interrupted by dense 

 dark-green, and ancient plantations, from the small copse to the ex- 

 tended forest. In the valley of the Nagold, women were principal- 

 ly engaged in reaping with the scythe, and they seemed to get 

 through their task with surprising rapidity. Before arriving in 

 sight of Ulm the Doctor journeyed " through a road interesting to 

 the geologist, and the lover of Suabian antiquities, in manv parts of 

 tvkic/i the remains of ancient feudal and baronial castles apjiear 

 planted in midway air, or on the summit of some of the most point- 

 ed and fantastic hills." He saluted the Danube, and indulged in a 

 soliloquy : he saw the imperial abbey of Elchingen, and it made 

 him contemplative. His sketches of Augsburg ai-e brief, but gra- 

 phic : it is an interesting city in many respects : one of its curiosi- 

 ties is the hotel of the Three Moors, which must be seen to be com- 

 prehended. The streets are paved with small stones, without any 

 iroltoirs, and are very unfavourable to the pedestrian ; they hurt 

 the Doctor's feet. On the road to Munich he had an illustration 

 of the different manner in which climates affect different individu- 

 als, even of the same family, and all equally in health. After as- 

 cending the last hill by a tortuous yet excellent road, he caught the 

 first glimpse of the snowy Alps, and here the effect of the air upon 

 his spirits was suddenly marvellous, and continued through the rest 

 of his journey. A buoyancy and elasticity came over his feelings 

 which he hailed as totally new : he was evidently in a congenial 

 climate, and the energy of all his faculties evinced how beneficial 

 such a climate was to his constitution. On his two sons the effect 

 was neither so striking nor so decidedly favourable; and this fur- 

 nished him with the illustration. 



Munich is the capital of Bavaria, and it is the head of Dr. Gran- 

 ville's second " geographical group," which includes the " Saltz- 

 burgean Spas ;" and on this metropolis he exercises the spirit of 

 topographic oratory with his usual vivacity and judgment. He gives 

 a sublime prescription for combining the elements best calculated to 

 effect the alterative process by which a city may be converted into 

 the " Fair Queen" of an empire. The ingredients are these : — a 

 higher state of knowledge, a greater encouragement to learning, the 

 promotion of industry, the patronage of the liberal professions, the 

 foundation of institutions suited to the times, the erection of vast 

 and magnificent buildings, the cultivation of a pure and correct 

 taste in architecture, in painting, and in sculpture, and a more en- 

 lightened government. Munich seems to have possession of these 

 high requisites : at no distant period, the Doctor thinks, it will be 

 the capital of South Germany. It bids fair to become the Athens 



