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“ Ilundsberg, April 7. — We had agreed with a countryman 
of ours, M. Gmeincr, a merchant, to take us. on an excursion 
to Masculi, but the continual rains prevented it. 
“ Whilst we were absent on our journey to Venice, M. Brand- 
enberg found a plant on the Hindsberg, which from the descrip- 
tion, we concluded to be a Pulsatilla. As, however, when 
this gentleman saw our Dogs-tooth Violet , he declared it to be 
that plant, we hastened to look for it, and found it growing ra- 
ther plentifully on the northern declivity of the hill, scarcely a 
quarter of an hour’s distance from our lodging, under juniper and 
oak bushes. We also saw here a large specimen of the Lizard 
( Lacerta Salamandra ), which the warmer sun had invited out 
The country people wondered how we could take this animal 
into our hands, and thought that we must possess some peculiar 
art, which prevented it from biting us ; but when we put it close 
to our faces, they immediately all ran away. Thus many a poor 
harmless animal,, who is happy enough, if permitted to live un- 
molested by the path side, can alarm man, (though gifted with 
reason, and able to tame lions and tigers), purely from his igno- 
rance of natural history.” 
“ Hundsberg , April 8, 
“ The mood by Lippizd, two long hour e from Trieste , which Scopoli so muck extols. 1,3 
ScHw.a2GftiCHJiN in his Bot. Tasch. 
u To day we have heen botanizing in the famous forest of 
Lippiza, which we saluted, en passant , on the 5th and 6th of 
March. We therefore took the same road which we did then, 
over the Monte Spicata, nearly to Bassowitza. Not wishing to 
be detained by an examination at the custom-house, on the 
boundary, and the wood lying on the left hand, we got over 
the walls which surround the grassy or rather stony fields, in 
order to arrive at it the sooner. Before, however we succeeded, 
we had to walk across a piece of land, a quarter of an hour in 
length, for which we have no name, and which must, therefore, 
be described. The whole soil is covered with stones, which lie 
so thick, as scarcely to leave room for a foot to be placed between 
them. They are. from two to three, and even four feet long, 
and lie with their sharp edge upwards. The difficulty therefore, 
of walking over them may easily be supposed. The Stony Sea 
would not be an improper name for this place. After a great 
