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where pieces of marble are reduced to a globular form, by being 

 placed on a circular slab of marble, upon which turns a solid slab of 

 ashwood of the same size. There is an extensive tract of peaty 

 ground by the way, where Andromeda polifolia, Vaccinium oxycoccus, 

 and many other bog plants abound. 



I left Salzbiu'g on the 17th, despairing of being able to visit the 

 mountains, and perhaps was not very soiTy that the wet weather con- 

 tinued as long as I remained at Munich. I was, however, able to 

 revisit Harlacking, but found nothing new, and the Saxifraga mutata, 

 which, in my former visit, was only just coming into flower, had now 

 mostly discharged its seed. The meadows were full of a Crepis, 

 which has the general appearance of C. virens, while the form of the 

 fruit, and the spreading outer calyx seem rather to refer it to C. 

 biennis. I was not sufficiently alive to it at the time, passing it over 

 as a variety of C. virens, and neglected to take anything moi'e than 

 a single specimen as a memorandum. At Munich I went to the 

 palace, and to the An Kirche, which I had not seen on my former 

 visit. The first contains, certainly, some very fine rooms, but, on the 

 whole, I was rather disappointed, both in the rooms and in the paint- 

 ings. The Au Church is a very beautiful edifice of German gothic, 

 with the nave and aisles springing at the same height. This arrange- 

 ment gives a very great height to the windows. The upper part of 

 these has an ornamental pattern of coloured glass, admitting a good 

 deal of light ; the lower is enriched with paintings of the life of the 

 Virgin Mary, to whom the church is dedicated, in rich and deep 

 colouring, and very beautiful. Each window, and there are nineteen 

 of them, is said to have cost £1,200. The boggy ground about 

 Munich was too full of water to permit me to botanize upon it. The 

 railroad passes through an extensive tract of it. 



On the 21st of August I went to Augsburg. In the time of its 

 prosperity, it was the fashion here to paint the outsides of the houses, 

 sometimes with historical or allegorical subjects, sometimes with mere 

 ornament, and a good many of these painted outsides still remain. 

 The diminution of the population of Augsburg, during the last cen- 

 tury, seems to be nearly equal to the increase of that of Munich. The 

 immediate neighbourhood is flat. I attempted to reach some hills, 

 of no great elevation indeed, but with woody slopes, which bound the 

 valley, but I found myself entangled in a strip of boggy ground, which 

 stretches along their feet, and had not time to get to them. In the 

 meadows and bogs we find a mixture of our north of England bo- 

 tany, with plants of the Alps, and some of a warmer climate : among 



