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instruction merely elementary in the arts and commerce, so far 

 as to construct plans, and in the practical parts of stone cut- 

 ting; these extend also to chemistry, physics, natural history, 

 as connected with the arts and commerce, also to history, 

 geography, and the languages. The plan of this establishment 

 is more assimilated to that of our schools of arts and trades, 

 but is more comprehensive. 



Vienna, in its aggregate, contains very numerous collections 

 of every description. The imperial library adjoining the Cha- 

 teau, passes for the most considerable in Europe ; report as- 

 signs to it more than 300,000 volumes, (the royal library in 

 Paris has more than 500,000) also a great number of MSS., 

 and of samples in the art of printing, from 1435 to 1500. The 

 apartments wherein these valuable assemblages are deposited, 

 are very suberb, and if there is any thing objectionable, it is 

 the superfluity of gildings, marbles, paintings, and other articles 

 of luxury. The cabinet of antiques and medals is also in the 

 imperial palace, together with .the museum of natural history, 

 the present director general of which is M. Schreibers. This 

 establishment is very rich in minerals, many from Hungary, 

 also in shells, marine polypi, &c. 



The gallery of paintings at the Belvidere, on the Rennweg, 

 has an immense collection of works of all the different schools; 

 it was first formed by Joseph II., and has been gradually 

 increasing since. There are very capital paintings in the dif- 

 ferent churches ; these have also their rnausolea, the most 

 remarkable of which is that erected by duke Albert de Saxe 

 Teschen, in 1805, to the memory of his wife, the archduchess 

 Maria Christina. This monument is in the church of the 

 Augustins, adjoining the palace ; it was executed by Canova ; 

 the whole has an air of dejection and grief so natural, that the 

 sympathising spectator cannot but follow the figures, slowly 

 moving, as it were, to the tomb. 



At a little distance from the Belvidere, in the Rennweg, is 

 the botanic garden, belonging to the university. It is under 

 the management of the baron Jacquin, son of the botanist to 

 whom we are indebted for the Flora of Schonbrunn. The 

 number of rare plants is not very great, but the establishment 

 is very well adapted for the instruction of the students. 



Besides the collections of a public character, there are a 

 great number that belong to individuals. Indeed, there are 

 few cities wherein a taste for the arts is more generally dif- 

 fused among the opulent classes. There are collections of 

 paintings, of statues, of antiquities, but a great deficiency of 

 those in natural history. M. Vondernull has a collection of 

 mineralogy, of which M. Mohs has published a descriptive 



