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from the top of a great cliff. One could drive up, but 

 as they told us there was a short cut through the 

 wood, Mollie and I thought we would take that 

 path instead of making the steep descent by the 

 carriage road. The path proved to be a kind of rough 

 staircase in the face of the cliff. However we clambered 

 down its picturesque windings safely enough, 

 only Mollie said, "What would Sallie say to me, if 

 she knew I had led you into a scramble like that?" 



Englischer Hof, Munich, September 8, 1895 

 ... On Monday we came to Munich. Were you ever 

 in Munich? To me it has the most homelike feet- 

 ing because here Agassiz and Alexander Braun and 

 all their brilliant young companions had their Uni- 

 versity life, of which Agassiz told me so much and 

 so often, and which is told so vividly in his home 

 letters. I have been to the Sendlinger Thor, near 

 which he lodged in the house of the old naturalist, 

 Dollinger, but I cannot find out which house, 

 though there are some very old ones there. But 

 there have been great changes; the old gate remains, 

 but most of the landmarks belonging to that time 

 have disappeared. 



The long-anticipated visit to Montagny followed the 

 stay in Munich. "Arriving yesterday," Mrs. Agassiz wrote 

 in her diary on September 18, "Olympe brought me to the 

 little chamber which Agassiz and I occupied in 1859. It was 

 overwhelming at first, but still I felt very happy to be 

 here." 



