House and Garden 
their beautiful city and surroundings. The 
lower peaks of the Monchsberg are wooded ; 
and as they are linked together by a sort of 
ridge they make an agreeable promenade. 
On the opposite side of the river rises the 
Capuzinerberg, a hill considerably higher and 
more difficult to climb than the Monchsberg. 
This hill seems to belong to a Capuchin 
monastery. At any rate it is necessary to 
ring the monastery bell and pay a fee to the 
monks before you can climb it. At the top 
there is a good view of the city and the 
great plain of Bavaria. Behind the Capuzin¬ 
erberg there is the Gaisberg, which, roughly 
speaking, rises to the same height as Mt. 
Mansfield or of Ben Nevis (the highest 
summit of the British Isles). To get to 
the top of the Gaisberg there is no need to 
walk, a rack and pinion railway or zahnrad- 
bahn having been constructed some years 
ago. This view is the most extensive of all, 
and by the Salzburgers is compared with those 
of the Rigi and the Pilatus in Switzerland. 
Coming down from these heights to the 
streets of Salzburg one finds points of inter¬ 
est at almost every turn. The buildings 
have suffered not a little from fire, as is usu¬ 
ally the case where wood is largely employed 
in construction ; but neither fire nor time 
and its changes have altered the Old-World 
quaintness of the place. It is not so rich in 
color as Nuremberg, nor yet so varied in its 
outline, but in beauty of individual work, in 
fine carving and elaborate ironwork, it may 
be put before the German town. In the 
neighborhood of the Residenz-Platz there is 
a whole congregation of public and private 
buildings of surpassing beauty, all of them 
of great age. The Residence itself was 
erected about the end of the sixteenth cen¬ 
tury, and is occupied by the Grand Duke of 
Tuscany, who no doubt finds it a most de¬ 
sirable home. The cathedral, close by, was 
built a few years later. Behind it lies the 
Built against the sheer face of the Monchsberg 
THE CITY HOSPITAL 
