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vous at the time appointed, and met there the two 
professors and about thirty students, with whom we 
set out on our excursion, and our number was soon 
doubled by the accessions we received. Our course 
lay along the banks of the Isar (what lad that has 
been at school has not heard of “ Isar rolling rap- 
idly”), along which we ascended for about six miles, 
botanizing on the way. It was about twelve o’clock 
when we reached the place where the Linnzan cele- 
brations are always held. Here we found Madame 
Martius and the girls, who had arrived in a carriage, 
and the lady and children of another professor. Three 
or four other professors also joined the party: Pro- 
fessor Tirsch, the celebrated Grecian scholar; Pro- 
fessor Neumann, of Oriental languages; a celebrated 
physician, and some others. We filled an immense 
rustic dinner-table spread in an open pavilion, orna- 
mented in a simple manner with branches and flowers, 
and a portrait of Linneus. Professor Martius then 
read his address, which I judged from its effects upon 
the audience to be humorous; then followed the dinner, 
plain but good, consisting of three or four courses, 
beer supplied ad libitum, and this was no trifle, as you 
would understand if you could see how all these Ba- 
varians swill their beer. It is light, extremely light 
as compared with English. But you may judge how 
cheaply the Germans contrive to live, and how cheaply 
and simply they get up an affair which in England 
or at home would cost a round sum, when I inform 
you that the whole charge for dinner was twenty-four 
kreutzers or one Austrian zwanziger (sixteen cents!). 
This I suppose did not include the wine, of which 
there was a small supply, provided, perhaps, by Martius 
himself. 
