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dorf is better situated for mountain excursions. 

 The living, too, is both cheap and good : for 

 five shillings a-day a comfortable room and 

 good food can be had. A dinner of fair soup, 

 good beef-steak, and excellent native cheese, 

 with beer or wine, will not cost more than 

 eighteenpence. 



These few days at Oberstdorf are good ex- 

 amples of the difficulties and pleasures which 

 await an angler who rambles over the Con- 

 tinent. The best part of the first day, when 

 preliminary difficulties at the village were over- 

 come, was spent in gaining a knowledge of the 

 water; and even the second was to some ex- 

 tent experimental. But -the beautiful scenery, 

 the grey crags of the mountains rising from 

 the sombre pines, whose graceful forms are 

 also scattered over the bright green of the 

 hill pastures, and the brisk mountain air, would 

 outweigh even smaller baskets than were se- 

 cured on the two autumn days we gave to 

 fishing in the Iller Thai. 



From Oberstdorf we made our way to Thann- 

 heim, a high village in a broadish valley at the 

 junction of a small side valley, some miles 

 up which is a little lake, the Vilsalper See, 



