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fortunate to have obtained shelter, although we had to occupy 
a straw-bed, in company with many other travellers.” 
“ Trieste, Feb. 17. — From Frewald to this place we were able 
again to walk, for the high wind had sufficiently dispersed the 
snow on all sides of the barren rocky plain. Instead of the lofty 
Loibl which we have left behind these two days past, we have 
had the Monte Nanus, well known to botanists. 
u We experienced several changes of climate, in a walk of 5 
hours to Sessano. At first, the weather was perfectly calm, with 
a clear atmosphere. The nearer, however, we came to Sessano, 
the more lowering the sky became, till at length the black clouds 
discharged themselves in long continued falls .of snow. This 
stormy weather, which lasted for more than two hours when we 
were close to Trieste, formed a striking contrast to the descrip- 
tion which had been given us of the mild winters of this city, 
and made us entertain fears lest we should have arrived too 
early for the spring-flowers. 
66 From Sessano, where we dined, we proceeded 2 hours to 
Obschina, where we were obliged to show our passports. 
“ We had now a gradual ascent before us, from the summit 
of which, we were to distinguish, for the first time, the long 
wished for Trieste, (the country where the Citrons blossom,) and 
the mighty surface of the Adriatic Sea. For a length of time, 
we advanced at a very slow pace, as if to enjoy the pleasures of 
anticipation, which Baron Yon Seenns, by his travels into Xstria 
and Dalmatia, had taught us to expect. At length, when we 
were near the top of the hill, curiosity triumphed over these feel- 
ings, and each hastened forward, striving to be the first to enjoy 
the majestic prospect. We were, indeed, astonished. We had 
often viewed from the summits of high mountains, large tracts 
of country, with fertile meadows, rich corn-fields, and numerous 
villages ; but such a vista of a vast extent of water, melting in 
the distance into the horizon, of numerous ships in the harbour, 
forming as it were a second city to the proud Trieste, which we 
were about to inhabit for some weeks, and the vegetation of whose 
neighbourhood we were to explore, we never before beheld. 
“ Hence to Trieste was a continual and steep descent for more 
than a quarter of an hour. This hill is excessively fatiguing 
