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macadam principle, and lined on either side with cherry or 

 other fruit or ornamental trees. 



Jena lies in the beautiful valley of the Saal. There are two 

 lofty ridges, bare and precipitous, one on either side of the 

 river. They terminate abruptly, but the beautiful meadow 

 land along the river, and the rich pastures and cultivated 

 slopes, together with the historical associations connected with 

 these heights, to say nothing of the fame of the university here, 

 lend the place a sort of charm, which would seem to make it 

 delightful as a summer residence. 



I had been fortunate enough on leaving Hamburg to fall in 

 with a fine young man who was a student in the agricultural 

 department of the university of Jena. We occupied tlie same 

 coupe till my course for Leipsic and his to Berlin separated us. 

 He was to spend a day or two at the latter place and I at the 

 former. As good fortune would have it, without any precon- 

 certed plan, we met again at a junction a little out of Leipsic, 

 both bound for Jena. I found him intelligent and in the 

 highest degree civil and agreeable, disposed to communicate 

 all the information he possessed in regard to matters along the 

 road, volunteering, also, to introduce me to Professor Stock- 

 hardt and to show me the lions of the town. He pointed out 

 the world-renowned battle-ground just before reaching the 

 town, and the positions of the various forces engaged, and after 

 we arrived, I was indebted to him for a great deal of informa- 

 tion and kindness. 



Jena had a peculiar charm for me from the fact that it was 

 for several years the residence of Schiller and Goetlie, and 

 many other distinguished literary men of Germany, but espe- 

 cially from the fact that I had but recently finished the reading 

 of the collected letters of Schiller and Lgtte von Lengefeld, to 

 whom he was married at the close of the correspondence. 

 Very many of them were dated at Jena, and filled with the 

 incidents and experiences of his life there. It is needless to 

 say that these letters are full of love and tenderness. That is 

 the characteristic of most love-letters, I believe, but this corres- 

 pondence had led me to a more intimate knowledge of the 

 peculiar characteristics of the mind of this great writer, than I 

 had got from the previous reading of most of his works in their 

 beautiful original language. 



