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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 Linnaean 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 Linnaeus. 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 Bar 

 varlans 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 woidd 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. 



