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from the top of a great cliff. One could drive up, but 
as they told us there was a short cut through the 
wood, Mollie and I thought we would take that 
path instead of making the steep descent by the 
carriage road. The path proved to be a kind of rough 
staircase in the face of the cliff. However we clambered 
down its picturesque windings safely enough, — 
only Mollie said, “What would Sallie say to me, if 
she knew I had led you into a scramble like that?” 
Englischer Hof, Munich, September 8, 1895 
...On Monday we came to Munich. Were you ever 
in Munich? To me it has the most homelike feel- 
ing because here Agassiz and Alexander Braun and 
all their brilliant young companions had their Uni- 
versity life, of which Agassiz told me so much and 
so often, and which is told so vividly in his home 
letters. I have been to the Sendlinger Thor, near 
which he lodged in the house of the old naturalist, 
Dollinger, but I cannot find out which house, 
though there are some very old ones there. But 
there have been great changes; the old gate remains, 
but most of the landmarks belonging to that time 
have disappeared. 
The long-anticipated visit to Montagny followed the 
stay in Munich. “ Arriving yesterday,” Mrs. Agassiz wrote 
in her diary on September 18, “‘Olympe brought me to the 
little chamber which Agassiz and I occupied in 1859. It was 
overwhelming at first, but still I felt very happy to be 
here.” 
