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and thus left what I might have done, for an uncertainty, and for 

 what, in fact, never took place. I remained at Salzburg and its 

 neighbourhood, including an excursion to Mondsee, from the 8th to 

 the 17th, partly in hopes that the weather would improve, and permit 

 me to visit some of the snowy mountains which I saw about me, and 

 partly to obtain my trunk, which, in order to have as little incum- 

 brance as possible in my mountain rambles, I had sent from Linz. 

 I had delivered it to the people at the inn, at Linz, on Friday, the 

 2nd of August : it was not ready till past six in the evening, and they 

 assured me that the office would be closed, but promised it should be 

 sent on in the morning by the diligence, and it was not till my ar- 

 rival at Salzburg, that I learnt that the diligence would not take par- 

 cels weighing above three pounds, and that consequently my luggage 

 would be given to the baggage-wagon (Fiihr wagen), and that this 

 baggage-wagon went only once a week, passing through Linz on the 

 Friday night : I took one or two walks about Salzburg, and observed 

 Laserpitium Siler and latifolium, and Carduus personatus. Of Cir- 

 sium rivulare, which is said to be very abundant in the meadows, 1 

 saw only one specimen, and that was near Mondsee. It is probably 

 cut down in mowing the meadows, and does not reappear. I made 

 also a trip to Mondsee, and in company with Mr, Hinterhuber, of 

 that place, up to the Chalets on the SchafFberg, but the fog was so 

 dense, and so continued, that after passing the night in a hay-loft, we 

 could do nothing but walk down again. At Mondsee I gathered 

 Scrophularia Neesii. This seems, in that neighbourhood, to occupy 

 the place of S. Ehrarti, from which, perhaps, it is not distinct. The 

 S. aquatica of the German botanist, is what in England has received 

 the name of S. Ehrarti, while our aquatica is by them named Bal- 

 bisii, and is a much scarcer plant. Many mountain plants come 

 down in the woods quite to the shores of the lake, but of course these 

 were completely out of flower ; Aconitum formosum and A. flexuosum 

 of Reichenbach also grow near the lake, and Galeopsis pubescens is 

 abundant. On the SchafTberg grow Lycopodium annotinum, Pyrolas, 

 Campanula Scheuchzeri of Koch., Ranunculus lanuginosus, and 

 several other mountain plants, which, at the height I reached, were 

 out of flower. Another excursion was to the Kugelraiihl, at the foot 

 of the Untersberg. I went on a fine evening, in hopes of being able 

 to spend two days in exploring the mountain, which is said to be 

 rich, and being above 6,000 feet high, always retains patches of snow, 

 but rain and mist prevented me. The Kugelrauhlen are merely little 

 spinners in the Alpine stream, furnished by the Fiirstenbrunnen, 



