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Bavarian who goes to England, pleased as he may be 

 with all beside, greatly misses this one necessary. I 

 have not met a single person ^and I have seen many 

 lately whom the Exhibition took there that did not 

 invariably remark, "If only your bread were better!" 

 or " How bad your bread is ! how we longed for some 

 of our own*!" 



The dwellings in the mountainous parts of Bavaria 

 are also very different from those of the flat country : 

 they somewhat resemble the cottages of Switzerland, 

 and, in the same manner, harmonize remarkably with 

 the scenery amid which they are placed. So much 

 indeed is this the case, that for their particular style 

 of architecture the mountains seem a necessary back- 

 ground ; the two belong together : indeed the moun- 

 tains are here as necessary to complete their cha- 

 racter, as the landscape background is indispensable 

 to the figures in the Peter Martyr of Titian. 



Put any other building of brick or stone in these 

 valleys, and the discord, so to speak, will be imme- 

 diately felt. As it is, the eye finds the gently-sloping 

 lines of the low roof so low indeed that all its 

 surface is discernible again repeated in the bolder 

 outlines rising up into the sky : there seems an af- 

 finity between them, and there is just enough con- 

 nection to make them component parts of a well- 

 ordered whole. 



* At present (Dec. 1851) the six-pound loaf costs 24 kreutzers, 

 or Sd. English. In the Spring the price was so low as 4>d., and for a 

 short time even it cost 11 kreutzers, or 3f d. 



