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devoting their attention. Who can estimate the advantap^cs 

 which such an institution offers to the young artisans of the 

 country, under the direction of men so situated as to be 

 informed of the latest improvements in all the arts ? What a 

 stimulus it must afford to the development of the material 

 resources of a great country ! 



Then there is the cathedral of St. Stephen, built in 1144, 

 with its magnificent steeple, four hundred and twenty-eight 

 feet high. The great musical bell was cast from one hundred 

 and eighty Turkish cannon. The interior of this grand old 

 cathedral is unique and interesting. It contains the tomb of 

 the celebrated Prince Eugene, whose body lies buried there. 



Vienna is very rich, both in collections of art and natural 

 history. Besides the imperial zoological cabinets already men- 

 tioned, there are imperial cabinets of antiquities, minerals, 

 and plastic arts ; the geographical institution ; the mineralogical 

 institution, one of the finest and most extensive in Europe, 

 and many others. 



Schonbrunu Palace, the residence of the Emperor in summer, 

 is just out of the city, but omnibuses constantly run there, and 

 the people visit it in hundreds daily, in summer, for the walks 

 in the gardens, and delightful drives in the neighborhood. This 

 palace was finished by Maria Theresa. Napoleon's son lived 

 and died there in 1832. The garden is very extensive, laid out 

 in the French style, quite artificial, with straight, broad avenues, 

 lined with trees, trimmed in the most formal manner by rule 

 and square. It gives the appearance of exceeding primness, 

 but it seems to be an unpardonable interference with the ever 

 varying and beautiful forms of nature. On the top of a rising 

 ground, overlooking a vast extent of country, Maria Theresa 

 built what is called a Gloriette, from the top of which the visitor 

 has a most perfect view of the city. 



Connected with the garden of the palace there is an 

 extensive botanical garden, containing many flower gardens, 

 palm houses, <fcc., and a menagerie of living animals, lions, 

 tigers, bears, in great numbers, goats, various kinds of horned 

 cattle, and one of the most interesting and extensive collec- 

 tions of living birds, especially water fowls, that I saw in 

 Europe. The people have free and constant access to all these 

 grand collections, and they avail themselves very freely of the 



