224 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. (1839, 
I have bought Grisebach’s new “ Genera et Species 
Gentianearum,” and have been studying it on my way 
in the steamboat. It seems very well done, particu- 
larly his preliminary matter on structure, affinities, de- 
velopment, geographical distribution, ete., which is very 
interesting. It is very carelessly printed. Our well- 
known “ Tuckerton,” in the pine-barrens, figures under 
the form of “ Juckerten”! Let this suffice at present. 
Satzpure, June 10, 
Arrived at Linz Friday noon, dined, looked a little 
about the town, which is remarkable for nothing ex- 
cept its agreeable situation on the Danube, gal its 
unusual kind of fortification; and at half past one 
started for Gmiinden, about thirty-five miles by rail- 
road, in a car drawn by horses. This railroad, the 
oldest in Germany, is rather a primitive affair; we 
were jolted more than on the ordinary roads, which 
I have found everywhere excellent. The first part 
of the road was very uninteresting. I was seated 
in the middle of the car, with five or six inveterate 
German smokers around me, each equipped with a 
huge meerschaum pipe with a wooden stem nearly 
as long as your arm, which he replenished as often as 
it was exhausted, and all puffed away in concert as if 
they were locomotive engines and our progress de- 
pended upon their exertions. You are everywhere 
annoyed in the same way, but I have become accus- 
tomed to it so that it does not trouble me as at first. 
At length a fat military officer next me smoked him- 
self to sleep ; and I was amusing myself with the ridic- 
ulous pendulum-like motions he was making, his pipe 
still grasped by his mouth at one end and by his hand 
at the other, when he knocked his head against the 
