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All being satisfactorily arranged, we left Tschl 

 soon after daybreak by a good road winding along 

 the right bank of the Traun, and, after a walk of 

 about three hours, arrived at the village of Steg, 

 on the Lake of Hallstadt, which is about five miles 

 long, and something less than two broad. Here we 

 took a boat, and pulled over to the village of Hall- 

 stadt, where we put up at the " Gruner-baum," a 

 very homely, but comfortable inn. After a sub- 

 stantial breakfast upon saihling (char) fresh from 

 the lake, hlangesotten (trout boiled in vinegar and 

 water), and gemsfleisch-hraten (broiled chamois- 

 steaks), we clambered up to the Eudolphsthurm, 

 an antique-looking tower perched on a projecting 

 rock about a thousand feet above the village, from 

 whence we had a magnificent view of this wild but 

 gloomy-looking lake. Hallstadt is built on the 

 side of the mountain, the houses rising in terraces 

 one above another, so that one has to go up and 

 down flights of steps instead of streets, and it is so 

 shut in by high ranges, that from November to the 

 end of January its inhabitants never see the sun. 

 Somewhat higher than the tower is the entrance of 



