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To the Mountains 



"Away to the hills." 



Sir Walter Scoff. 



THE Tyrol ! There is something suggestive 

 in the very name a suggestion of massive 

 mountains and rushing rivers, of pictur- 

 esque costumes and pretty faces, of a country wild, 

 free, romantic, and unspoilt ! 



There are two Tyrols, however. On the one 

 hand that of the tourists, all mapped out and 

 arranged in the pages of Bedaeker, with the ex- 

 cursions to be made, and the sights to be seen, 

 and the hotels to be stayed in ; and, on the other, 

 the pure and unadulterated Tyrol, where that most 

 estimable throng come not, and where one stands 

 face to face with Nature herself. The latter is the 

 preferable side of the picture to me, at least. 



Some half-hour's railway journey from Innsbruck, 

 on the Vienna side, is a small station of the name of 

 Jenbach. It is not an important place, and few 

 people alight there; but four passengers, surrounded 



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