374 SECOND JOURNEY IN EUROPE. _ [1850, 
It is now the 20th,— time passed fast. I work 
to-day in herbariums De Candolle and Boissier, and 
to-morrow morning we go to Freiburg and Berne and 
the Bernese Oberland. We cannot be back now in 
England so early as we expected; but still hope to 
be there by the 20th September. . . 
Thursday morning, after an sais. breakfast, went 
on by railroad to Kehl; left our luggage and took a 
carriage over the bridge of boats, across the lines of the 
French republic (?) into Strasburg. Saw Schimper ; 4 
then we went to the cathedral, viewed the grand front 
of this imposing structure, and the wonderful spire, 
the tallest in the world; were much struck with the 
grandeur of the interior, wholly lighted by stained 
glass, the greater part of it 400 or 500 years old. 
After visiting the Museum of Natural History, and 
arranging with Schimper to meet him in Switzer- 
land, where he is to pass with his wife (a Swiss lady) 
a long vacation, we took our carriage and returned to 
the Baden side of the river, and came on to Frei- 
burg Cin the Breisgau) that evening, reaching it in 
the rain. ... 
Professor Braun,? the brother of the first Mrs. 
Agassiz, was very kind to us. He is a very interest- 
ing man, of charming manners; his wife very sweet 
and charming, his children most engaging. Saturday 
afternoon we took a carriage, and with Professor 
Braun rode up a beautiful valley to the Héllenthal 
(French, Vallée d’Enfer), a rocky and wooded gorge of 
1 William Philip Schimper, 1808-1880 ; an eminent bryologist and 
paleontologist. 
2 a Braun, 1805-1877; a distinguished goer, the mand 
companion assiz at Heidelberg ; professor at Berli 
investigator ri stood in the front rank among the toteniie ie our 
time ” [A. G.]. 
