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ports, which are so troublesome in the little principalities of 
Germany, our travellers had their difficulties removed by the 
friendly aid of the superior officers. On the following day they 
reached Thunbach (6 hours), on the 25th Longfeld (9 hours), 
where their fare was miserable, and straw served them for a 
bed. According to their own account, however, they slept well. 
“ The pedestrian,” say they, “ never can meet with an intoler- 
ably bad lodging, either on the hills or in the plains ; having 
hunger, which is the best cook, and chearfulness and fatigue, 
which are the grand requisites for sleep.” On the 26th they 
reached Ratisbon, a long stage of 13 stund, and passed three 
days among their scientific friends resident in that place. 
On the 29th they arrived, after a walk of 9 hours, at Strau- 
bingen, having, as they journeyed, been favoured with a distant 
view of the rich country on the banks of the Danube, the moun- 
tains and woods of Stanf, Sulzbach, Bach and Woerth, where 
these naturalists had formerly wandered in search of plants. 
Straubingen, happily for them, afforded an excellent inn, a cir- 
cumstance which calls forth an observation, to the truth of 
which most of our botanical friends can testify ; 66 that, although 
travellers in pursuit of objects of natural history, can accommo- 
date themselves to every situation, and, under all circumstances, 
can shelter themselves under the mantle of content ; yet, that 
when they meet with good entertainment, they know how to en- 
joy it like the rest of mankind.” 
On the 30th they proceeded on to Seimbach, again 9 hours, 
leaving at Eiterhofen the Vienna road : passing the Iser below 
Landau, and there, entering a mountainous tract of country, 
they gradually ascended to the snowy regions of the Red-Stad- 
dter Tauerns and the Loibets. 
Marchl (8 hours) received our travellers on the 31st of Ja- 
nuary, their track having lain mostly through an alpine coun- 
try, where the pine-trees, laden with snow, presented a striking 
appearance. On the 1 st of February they crossed the Iser, and 
entered the territory of Saltzburg, where a different scenery, 
truly alpine, its inhabitants peculiarly dressed, and speaking a 
dialect distinct from any that they had yet witnessed, excited 
