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when you ladies throw aside some mode, it is picked 
up and perpetuated in some out-of-the-way part of the 
world. Thus, for example, all the young fraus of 
Ischl wear balloon sleeves, after the most approved 
fashion some three or four years ago. I assure you it 
looked quite natural to see them again, even upon the 
buxom damsels of the Salzkammergut (there ’s a name 
for you). 
It is now half past seven; and it is still raining 
most obstinately, so ascending the Monchsberg is not 
to be thought of; and I must make up my mind to 
leave Salzburg without this view. My trunk is sent 
to the office of the: brief-post-eilwagen, all ready for 
starting at six o’clock in the morning, and to-morrow 
evening at eleven I hope (D. V.) to be in Munich, 
seventy-eight miles. I owe Bentham a letter, and 
have not written him or any one else since I left 
Paris. I will take this convenient opportunity and 
write forthwith. 
Monicu, 12th June. 
I arrived in this capital of Bavaria last evening at 
eleven o'clock, after a tedious, though not uninterest- 
ing ride of seventeen hours. The day proved a fine 
one, and after leaving Salzburg through the curious 
tunnel that penetrates the Ménchsberg we came 
abruptly into the open country ; and as the mists grad- 
ually rose from the sides of the mountains and we 
ascended some small hills, I obtained some most beau- 
tiful and picturesque views of the surrounding moun- 
tains. The Stauffenberg, which stood between us and 
Berchtesgaden, a magnificent mountain, was for a long 
time the most prominent object ; backed by the more 
distant central portions of the Salzburg Alps, all 
white with snow. It was only as I left this place 
