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the morning cloudy ; the clouds hanging on the higher summits. 

 Our guide wanted to persuade us, that any further ascent was imprac- 

 ticable, and that we had better descend at once to another house of 

 entertainment, called the Hochbauer, belonging to the same man, at 

 the foot of the mountain. We ascended one of the knolls over the 

 fallen trees and rotten stumps, in order to obtain a better view. The 

 mist had disappeared from many of the surrounding summits, and 

 even from some which still retained a portion of snow, and though 

 still heavy on the great Schneeberg, it was evidently rising. We 

 therefore determined to pursue our scheme, seeing we had always the 

 power of returning, should the fog increase. Our guide was exces- 

 sively out of humour at this determination. He had been flattering 

 himself that he should get the reward for his services without incur- 

 ring the labour, and moreover, it appeared afterwards that he was 

 entirely ignorant of the country between the Schneeberg and Reiche- 

 nau, although he had promised to guide us to the latter place. I 

 added Tozzia alpina and Potentilla aurea to the plants I had gathered 

 on the Kuhschneeberg, and the ascent of the great one was rewarded 

 by Rhododendron hirsutum. Campanula alpina, Hedysarum obscurum, 

 Oxytropis montana, Viola alpina, Soldanella pusilla, Androsace Cha- 

 msejasme and A. lactea, Finns Pumilio, Primula spectabilis and P. 

 minima. 



The weather cleared as we advanced, and we had an extensive view 

 of rugged and broken mountains ; not, according to Gilpin's distinc- 

 tion, a mountain view. We stopped at the Baumgarten, where there 

 is another public house, and where we had had some thoughts of 

 staying the night, but the Botany did not appear to be interesting, 

 and to feel that I had been hurried away from the rich harvest of the 

 Great Schneeberg to waste four or five hours in a poor little inn, 

 which had no advantage of situation to recommend it, was too pro- 

 voking ; we therefore continued our walk over another and lower 

 division of the mountain to Reichenau. Most of the latter part of 

 the walk is on a Riesen, or Giant, the name here given to the slides 

 down the mountain, which are made for the timber. The descent of 

 the wild magnificent rocky ravine is, however, more rapid than that 

 of the Giant, which is interrupted two or three times, and the logs of 

 timber are precipitated on banks of loose earth and stones, whence 

 they have again to be collected, and placed on the next division of 

 the Giant. These slides are only used in the winter, and are watered 

 before being used, if Nature have not already furnished them with an 

 icy coat. 



