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with foreigners. Of late he has made astonishing 

 progress in the danish language. In 1827 , he 

 undertook the turk, without any teacher but Viguier's 

 Grammar, and the various turkish books he found 

 afterwards in the public libraries of Prague and 

 Vienna. Having met with insurmountable difficulties 

 of admission in the Oriental Academy of Vienna, he 

 tried jurisprudence; but seeing that neither the law 

 nor the turkish language could lead him to any favou- 

 rable result, he devoted himself to medecine, and took 

 his degrees at Prague, on the 10th of March 1835. 

 The best proof that he has not neglected oriental lan- 

 guages is the double turkish version of Lobkowitz's 

 Ode on Carlsbad, which he gave me, in April 1831. 

 Having asked him leave of submitting both to Mr. de 

 Hammer's judgement , ivho himself, two years before, 

 had declined to translate it at my request, as too 

 difficult, the great orientalist of Vienna answered that 

 ^Pfitstmayer's versions were admirable; that / could 

 ^without any scruple print them in my Polyglot, etc." 

 Augustus Pfitxmayer's beginning Life, his two versions 

 and Mr. de Hammer's answers, are published in my 

 Almanach de Carlsbad, 1882, ch. XVIII. 



(^ s ) Peter I, cxar of Russia, came twice to Carls- 

 bad, towards the end of October 1711 and 1712, and 

 the last elective king of Poland, Stanislas Poniatowski, 

 drank our waters , during the winter of 1761, vi%. 

 three years before his election. 



