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when you ladies throw aside some mode, it is picked 

 up and perpetuated in some out-of-the-way part of the 

 world. Thus, for example, all the young fraus of 

 Ischl wear balloon sleeves, after the most approved 

 fashion some three or four years ago. I assure you it 

 looked quite natural to see them again, even upon the 

 buxom damsels of the Salzkammergut (there 's a name 

 for you). 



It is now half past seven ; and it is still raining 

 most obstinately, so ascending the Monchsberg is not 

 to be thought of ; and I must make up my mind to 

 leave Salzburg without this view. My trunk is sent 

 to the office of the brief-post-eilwagen, all ready for 

 starting at six o'clock in the morning, and to-morrow 

 evening at eleven I hope (D. V.) to be in Munich^ 

 seventy-eight miles. I owe Bentham a letter, and 

 have not written him or any one else since I left 

 Paris. I will take this convenient opportunity and 

 write forthwith. 



MUNICH, 12th June. 



I arrived in this capital of Bavaria last evening at 

 eleven o'clock, after a tedious, though not uninterest- 

 ing ride of seventeen hours. The day proved a fine 

 one, and after leaving Salzburg through the curious 

 tunnel that penetrates the Monchsberg we came 

 abruptly into the open country ; and as the mists grad- 

 ually rose from the sides of the mountains and we 

 ascended some small hills, I obtained some most beau- 

 tiful and picturesque views of the surrounding moun- 

 tains. The Stauffenberg, which stood between us and 

 Berchtesgaden, a magnificent mountain, was for a long 

 time the most prominent object ; backed by the more 

 distant central portions of the Salzburg Alps, all 

 white with snow. It was only as I left this place 



