REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 197 
The Black Forest : 
Notes taken by L. Hart, during a tour in Germany in 1861. 
[Read before the Fine Art Section, 27 June, 1879.] 
name brings to most minds visions of robbers, murderers, 
able thickets, dangerous wild beasts, and who knows 
it other horrors. The country is comparatively unknown, and 
fore more or less unexplored by tourists. It cannot be said 
e become fashionable, and therefore is supposed to be still un- 
But when the traveller, either from love of novelty or 
y of any kind, is induced to penetrate this unknown region, 
Ww ‘ob 
: The inhabitants, if somewhat rough from want of frequent 
cumunication with the outer world, are honest and friendly. 
mages and farm-houses are met with in every direction,—where 
land, in the course of one day’s walk. ile there are 
e far-famed Hillenthal or Valley of Hell, the Albthal, 
narrow limits, in some cases wholly dried up, oi 
uvii 
are blended together, sometimes covere 
es cleared and open for miles around. Its natural 
among its more valuable treasures. j 
ich, possessing 
peculiar to itself, and others common to it 
ura, and Vosges. The immense variety 0 
of elevation make the flora of this region @ 
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