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, etc., 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. 



Salzbueo, 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, and its 

 unusual kind of fortification'; and at haK 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 aU 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 



