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about two the next day we arrived at Lintz, but it set in wet again 

 in the evening, and continued so all the next day. On the third I 

 was called at ten minutes past four, in order to start by the railroad 

 at six. The day was beautiful, and a magnificent view of distant 

 mountains relieved the monotony of the plain over which our route 

 lay. I was at a loss to account for the quantity of snow on these 

 mountains, of which the highest does not exceed 10,000 feet, 

 till I learned at Ischl that, even there, what was rain at Lintz, had 

 been partly snow. I left the carriage, to walk to the falls of the 

 Trann, a wild scene of roaring waters, but not of any great elevation. 

 I attempted to follow the stream, but the late rains had swelled the 

 waters, and I found it impracticable. Potentilla caulescens is plen- 

 tiful by the river side, and I gathered one plant of Allium fallax in 

 the woods above. The carnages on this railroad are propelled by 

 horses, and not by steam ; and the great object is the conveyance of 

 salt from the Saltzburg district, of which the company has the ex- 

 clusive privilege. At Lambach a considerable number of our pas- 

 sengers left the train to get into diligences, which were waiting to 

 convey them to Saltzburg. 



Gmunden is beautifully situated at the foot of its charming lake. 

 In the immediate neighbourhood are meadows, and cultivated ground ; 

 a little further on the left, the rugged Traunsteen rises almost perpen- 

 dicularly from the water, and still farther, to the right of the lake, 

 stretches the wild ridge of the Hollengebirge, spotted with snow. A 

 steam-vessel took me in the morning to Ebensee, at the opposite end 

 of the lake, and a " Stell wagen," a sort of diligence, through a mag- 

 nificent mountain pass, to Ischl. Here I dined, and then proceeded 

 to Hallstadt, but the rain came on long before I got there. 



The lake of Hallstadt is wilder and more magnificent than that of 

 Ginunden (the Traunsee), the mountains descending all round, almost 

 perpendicularly, into the water. The little town itself stands partly 

 on the flights of steps on the mountain side, and partly in the water. 

 The next morning the scud was floating on the mountain sides, and 

 clouds covered the tops and the sky, so I thought it would hardly do 

 for a long mountain walk, but determined to look about me a little, 

 and see what sort of a place I had got into. A flight of steps, leading 

 in a zigzag line through the woods, seemed to give me an opportunity 

 of ascertaining what these hanging woods would produce, and tempted 

 me on to some high meadows. At the top of these was a sort of 

 village, with saw-mills, and marble-quarries ; above these again, 

 woods ; and still higher, broken ground, and a slope of fragments. 



