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long and excessive exertion, contributed no doubt very 

 considerably to our joviality. The next morning I took 

 the youngster to Munich, where he stayed for a fort- 

 night, receiving meanwhile numerous visits. He is now 

 at Konigs See in the enjoyment of perfect health, placed 

 opposite his comrade whom, two years ago, I took out of 

 a nest on the Untersberg, letting myself down to the 

 spot by a rope. AMioever would like to see them can do 

 so and welcome. 



This was not the first time Count Arco had rendered 

 vain all the precautions of the eagle to secure her young 

 from the depredations of man, by building the eyrie in a 

 spot seemingly inaccessible. A few years previous he 

 had taken an eaglet from the nest under circumstances 

 quite as difficult, and mth a boldness no less daring 

 than was shown in the foreo-oino- adventure. The scene 

 of his exploit was the G-uhrr Wand, close to Hallthurn 

 near Berchtesgaden. The precipice, on a ledge of which 

 the eyrie was situated, is about eight hundred feet in 

 depth ; a perpendicular wall of rock. Those who have 

 been much in the mountains mil know that on such 

 places, smooth as the face of the rock is, little projections 

 are to be found, large enough to allow a fir tree to grow 

 there, or — should he by some incomprehensible arrange- 

 ment be able to get there — for a human being to stand 

 upon, mthout, however, having any room to spare. It 



