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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER VII. FREYSING. LANDSHUT. ALTOTING. SALZBURG. THE MONASTERY OF ST. PETER. Salzburg; Golden Ship, Aug. 23, 1818. MY DEAR FRIEND; If ever I wished for those who are dear to me in England, to be my companions during any part of this antiquarian and picturesque tour, (for there are comparatively few, I fear, who would like to have been sharers of the bibliographicaf department of it) it has been on the route from Munich to this place: first, darting up to the north; and secondly, descending gradually to the south; and feasting my eyes, during the descent, upon mountains of all forms and heights, winding through a country at once cultivated and fertile, and varied and picturesque. Yes, my friend, I have had a glimpse, and even more than a glimpse, of what may be called Alpine Scenery: and have really forgotten Fust, Schoeffher, and Mentelin, while contemplating the snow-capt heights of the Gredig, Walseberg, and Untersberg: ?to say nothing of the Gross Klokner, which raises its huge head and shoulders to the enormous height of 12,000 feet above the level of the sea. These be glorious objects'.?but I have only gazed; and, gazed at a distance of some twenty or thirty miles. Surrounded as I am, at this moment, ?in one of the most marvellous and romantic spots in Europe ?in the vicinity of lakes, mountain-torrents, trout- streams, and salt-mines, ?how can you expect to hear any thing about MSS. and Printed Books? They shall not, however, be wholly forgotten; for as I always endeavour to make my narrative methodical, I must of necessity make mention of the celebrated library of Ingoldstadt, (of which Seemiller has discoursed so learnedly in a goodly quarto volume, ) now, with the University of the same place, transferred to Landshut?where I slept on the first night ...

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